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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Costrea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a slight rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape. This is a raised grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 50m NNE-SSW; H 2-2.3m) with a hedge on the perimeter which is defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5-4m; ext. D 0.5m at S to 1.4m at N) SE-W-NE and skirted by a roadway NE-SE. The original entrance was not identified.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-101

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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