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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumboat

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located on a low rise in a low-lying undulating landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 41m NE-SW; 38m NW-SE) defined by a slight earthen bank that is largely reduced to a scarp (at SE: H 1.2m) and hedge. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) is at SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO029-006

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Cathar11, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • HENRY CLARK, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sgt Jack Pritchard RAF, Wikimedia Commons · OGL v1.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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