Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cornacarta, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Subcircular overgrown area (dims. 29m E-W; 26m N-S), which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by a stone spread (at W: Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m; at S: Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m) partly rebuilt as field walls and with traces of facing stones (original Wth 1.8m), but there is no visible entrance. Rath (RO003-013001-) is c. 190m to the WNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO003-014

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Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Daniel Waters, Co. Sligo, Ireland from Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Gavigan 01 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

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