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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Martry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

On the N-facing slope of a low E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.5m E-W; 31.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m generally to 2m at N). The perimeter is eroded SW-W, and a field bank circumvents the perimeter at W while a quarry lies outside the perimeter to the NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO016-014

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What survives
Recorded monument

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY 2.5
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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