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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Pollymount

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Towards the top of a gentle W-facing slope. Overgrown D-shaped area (dims 40m NW-SE; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) and outer fosse (at SE: Wth of base 1.9m; D 0.2m). It has been truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at NE and has a straight side at E. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO029-040----) is c 210m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO029-041

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  • Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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