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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockaphonery

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m) N->SW, stone faced in parts; scarp elsewhere; with silted-up external fosse. Break in bank to SW (Wth 3.7m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO135-067

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Draceane, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Caitlin Ferguson-Mir, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Owen O'Sullivan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Warren Buckley, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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