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Indicated — Donegall Middle

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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In pasture, on N-facing slope, at N end of Ringarogy Island. Circular enclosure hachured on OS 6-inch map (1842). Roughly pentagonal area (24.45m N-S; 22.75m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m) NE->NW; linear stone field fence to N side. Breaks in bank to SW (Wth 4.2m) and NW (Wth 2m), both leading to laneway which skirts bank to W. Interior ploughed, ridges run N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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