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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killycorran

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated towards the N end of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge, the summit of which is c. 100m to the SSW. This rath is depicted as a D-shaped copse on the demesne of Fort Singleton, on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown and wooded D-shaped area (dims 37.5m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (at N: Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) and outer fosse or drain (at N: Wth 2.3m; D c. 0.5m). There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is cut by a NE-SW field bank at NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO003-032

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Vyacheslav Argenberg from Seattle, WA, USA, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • James O'Neill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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