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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilcooley

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated on the 1837 and 1930 eds of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosure cut by an E-W road. Situated on a broad plateau. An arc (C 22m E-W) of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m), frequently reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.7m) and with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3m) survives NW-NE on the N side of the Strokestown - Tulsk road (N5). A section of the perimeter survives S of the road incorporated into a curving field bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m) SW-W (diam. c. 39m N-S; c. 36m E-W).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO028-047

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  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Tulsk GAA club website; individual photographer not stated, www.tulskgaa.ie
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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