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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killaclug

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by earthen bank (H c. 1m) to N and E; low rise to S; earthen bank (stone-faced in parts) to E, incorporated into field fence system. Disused farmbuildings built over line of bank to NW. Cairn of stones dumped inside bank to SE; some stones scattered over interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO070-032

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Ceoil ( talk ) ( Uploads ), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • me, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Joebater at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Alison Cassidy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • User Coil00 on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • netwhizkid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Gordon Hatton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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