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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Fedoo

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.5m NE-SW) defined by a slight bank (at S: Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m) and hedge but the perimeter is generally reduced to a scarp (at N: H 0.75m) with an outer drain (at S: Wth of base 1m; ext. D 0.4m), The original entrance is not identified, and the perimeter is skirted by a farm lane W-N.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO010-005

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • James O'Neill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Walking with a phone, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sean Davis, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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