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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, located on an elevation at the base of a NE-facing hill slope, overlooking a small stream valley. Raised circular area (33.5m N–S; 33m E–W) defined ESE−SW by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.4m at S), elsewhere reduced to a scarp (H 1.3m at N), outside which it is enclosed by an external fosse evident as a shallow depression (Wth 3m). The bank is low and degraded, and at ENE–ESE has been incorporated into a straight field fence on a NE–SW axis. The interior is level, with a somewhat uneven surface. In the NW quadrant there is an irregular-shaped shallow depression (max. dim. c. 4m). Close to the bank at SSW there is a low, sod-covered roughly circular mound (diam. c. 4-4.5m; H 0.3m), with a rather wet, soggy top surface. There are narrow gaps in the bank/scarp at ENE, S and SW, which appear recents. The original entrance may have been to E, now obscured by the field fence. Grass cover. There are raths (MA092-047----; MA092-041----) 200m to NW and c. 300m to SE, respectively; both are visible from this rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 11 March 2022

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