Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilgarve, County Roscommon

What is recorded here

On a shelf of a slight S-facing slope with a N-S stream immediately to the E. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m E-W; 24.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 1m at N to 1.9m at E), with a fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 3.2m; int. D 0.75m; ext. D 0.4m) SW-NW which is continued by a berm (Wth 4m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance. It remains unplanted in a forest (OSAP).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO004-026

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Silversyrpher (very busy at the moment) from Scotland, UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
RTG, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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