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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Curraghnagarraha

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located on a SE-facing slope. This is a slightly dished, grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 48m NW-SE; 42m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1m), with an external round-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 9-11m; int. D 0.3-0.6m; ext. D 0.6-1.2m) NW-NE. It is circumscribed by a field bank S-NW, and the entrance (Wth 3m) is a slight dip in the perimeter at SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA003-029

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Humphrey Bolton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sarahwalshireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; TXPeig, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Livioandronico2013, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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