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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Newbrook

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 37m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided, round-topped earthen bank (at NE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.9m), which is reduced to a scarp at E and which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.3m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.4m). The enclosing features are levelled at S. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 37m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided, round-topped earthen bank (at NE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.9m), which is reduced to a scarp at E and which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.3m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.4m). The enclosing features are…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE027-012

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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