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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killycushil

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on top of a drumlin in the demesne of Rossmore Castle. This is a raised circular area that is now grass-covered (diam. 39m N-S; 37.5m E-W) but had been deployed as a tree-ring. It was defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 2.3m; H 1.5m; at W: H 2.15m), with traces of an external fosse or drain (Wth of base 1.1m; D 0.45m) E-SW. An entrance gap (Wth of top 5.4m) at SSE is now blocked.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO013-006

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Walking with a phone, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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