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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Indicated is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Feacle, County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1915 Ordnance Survey map marked it as a curved field boundary on a south-facing slope. A short section of outer cashel wall remains visible beneath a drystone laneway wall that surrounds a circular grass area. No other evidence of the monument is currently visible.
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a curved field boundary (C c. 35m S-N), and situated towards the top of a S-facing slope. A section (L 5.5m) of the outer facing stones of a cashel wall at NW is visible under the E drystone wall of a N-S laneway which circumscribes a circular grass-covered area S-N (diam. c. 30m), but no other evidence of the monument is visible. Rath (RO048-124----) is c. 130m to the WSW, earthwork (RO048-123----) is c. 180m to the NW, and enclosure (RO048-126----) is c. 130m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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