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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle NE-facing slope where a circular earthen bank, roughly thirty metres across, joins a field bank without a visible entrance or fosse. The site has vanished from ground level in reclaimed pasture, leaving Rath as the only remaining marker two hundred metres to the southeast.
On a gentle NE-facing slope. Described as a circular area (diam. 32.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank, which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE, but with no visible fosse or recognisable entrance (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO042-052----) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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