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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Creevykeel

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

On a level terrace located on the N side of a NE-SW orientated ridge, in pasture. The cashel consists of a slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m) of random limestone rubble. There is no fosse visible at ground level. From W-NE, the bank is absent on the N side of a NE-SW orientated drystone field wall that crosses the site. Where the bank is absent, the limit of the cashel is visible as a darker band of grass (Wth 3m). The original entrance is not recognisable.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL003-026

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • NTF30, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jacobfrid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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