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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Kilmacat

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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What is recorded here

In pasture, atop ridge. Circular area (29.5m N-S; 29.8m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone bank (int. H 0.98m; ext. H 0.6m), best preserved SE->NW. Bank, wide and flat-topped SE->NW (Wth top 6m), tapers to a point N->NE. Dip in bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m) at NNW. Interior, under rough grazing, dips gently towards centre.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI012-006

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Photo credits
  • Claire WatersLulu, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Liam, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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