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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Creevaun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Close to a break of slope on the NW side of a ridge. A raised circular area (28.7m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.8m) ringed with hawthorn bushes. The bank is low or levelled internally, the external slope being eroded at NE. Outside the bank SSE-S is a slight depression (Wth 3m),…

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Close to a break of slope on the NW side of a ridge. A raised circular area (28.7m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.8m) ringed with hawthorn bushes. The bank is low or levelled internally, the external slope being eroded at NE. Outside the bank SSE-S is a slight depression (Wth 3m), possibly the remains of a silted-up fosse. A terrace (Wth 3m) skirts the bank SW-N, from the edge of which the natural slope of the ridge falls away steeply. A field boundary crosses the interior on NNE-SSW axis, close to the E edge. The interior is mostly grass-covered, apart from the area to E of the field boundary which is densely covered with overgrowth. The NE quadrant is slightly lower than the remainder of the interior and divided from it by a gentle scarp. The central part of the interior is slightly raised. There is a possible Man-made underground passage (SL025-064001-) in the SW quadrant.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL025-064

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • User:The.Q, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Willie Duffin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Niallio77, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Maelor at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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