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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilgrogan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Contained within lumber yard, on break in S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank NE->SSW and by linear field boundary NW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.55m) is poorly preserved and heavily masked by logs and wood shavings heaped against inner face and piled over top. Two trackways converge and directly open into interior at W, leading to hay-barn and woodworking area at centre of enclosure.
Contained within lumber yard, on break in S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank NE->SSW and by linear field boundary NW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.55m) is poorly preserved and heavily masked by logs and wood shavings heaped against inner face and piled over top. Two trackways converge and directly open into interior at W, leading to hay-barn and woodworking area…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI020-043

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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