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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, atop hill, on E shore of Lough Mask. Circular raised area (22m N-S; 21m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks with deep intervening fosse. Inner bank rises 4.3m above fosse base. Outer bank (H 0.9m) and fosse extant, ESE to NW. Heavily overgrown in parts. Stone palisade, SSW to NE, consists of thirty-five stones (highest; 2.3m), some standing and some lying prostrate, in an irregular pattern. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 171. Date of upload: 7 November 2013
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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