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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumad

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank and slight remains of a fosse. The perimeter has been levelled from NW-N-NE and replaced by a modern roadway. Original entrance not recognisable.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV028-014

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  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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