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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Drumacoo

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 (MA 64) and 1915 (diam. c. 25m) eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 25.5m N-S; c. 18.5m E-W) defined by the base of a stone wall with visible facing-stones (at W: Wth of base 2.1m; H 0.2-0.4m) SW-NW and a scarp (at E: H 0.1m; at S: 1.6m) E-SW. It is overlain by a N-S drystone wall W of the centre and an E-W drystone wall on the perimeter at N and had been reclaimed. Man-made underground passage (RO008-005002-) is on the perimeter at S and the cashel is inside the S edge of cashel (RO008-005003-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO008-005001

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Aiden Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • GAA.ie; photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Charlestown GAA (@CharlestownGAA) via HoganStand; individual photographer not stated, hoganstand.com
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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