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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Letterdunane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on the lower S-facing slopes of Derrynacaheragh. A circular area (20.5m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m). The bank is faced internally with stone N-E and SE-W, and is obscured by field-clearance debris NW-N. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at SE and there are further gaps in the bank at E and W. A farm road skirts the bank externally along the W arc and a river winds around the bank externally NE-SE. There is a Man-made underground passage (KE102-057001-) in the E half of the interior. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE102-057

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  • P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Craine, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Tann from Sydney, Australia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Nigel Cox, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Keith Cunneen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ulrich Hartmann, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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