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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Towards the top of the S-facing slope of a small NW-SE drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 22m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4-0.65m; ext. H 0.8-1m) and fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; D 0.2m) N-E, with a scarp (H 0.4-0.8m) E-SW, but it is truncated by a N-S field bank at W. There is no visible entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-089

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Reading Tom, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

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