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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dunmurraghoe

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

On a broad col with hills rising to the SW, NE and E. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4-6.2m; Wth of top 1.8-2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.9m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) NNW-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.3-5m; Wth of base 2.3-5m; D 0.3-0.4m) NE-E-SW which is circumscribed by a field bank SW-NW. The widened entrance (Wth 3m) is at SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-073

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Photo credits
  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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