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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Indicated
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Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moneyboy, County Roscommon, Ireland. The subcircular grass-covered area sits at the crest of a small east-west drumlin ridge and measures fifty metres east-west by forty-three point eight metres north-south. An earthen bank defines the boundary, though it incorporates into a field bank on the southwest and northwest while reducing to a scarp on the northeast and southeast. Another rath lies approximately two hundred and twenty metres to the west-southwest.
At the crest of a small E-W drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 50m E-W; 43.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) with some bushes which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW, and reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) N-E and SSE-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO022-133----) is c. 220m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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