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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Meera

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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On the NNE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 26m ENE-WNW; 19.3m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m at ESE to 5.7m at SSW; int. H 1m generally to 1.3m at SSW; ext. H 0.8m) ESE-S incorporated into a field bank S-WSW and by a scarp (H 1.3-1.6m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.2m; D 0.5m) S-WSW. There is no visible entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-018

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Reading Tom, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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