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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Rathdiveen

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope in an area of rock-outcrop. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 33-34m) defined by the foundations of a drystone wall with visible facing-stones (Wth 2.2-2.4m; H 0.05-0.3m) N-E-S, and a curving drystone field wall SW-NW. There is no visible entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO006-140

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • jbraine, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Real Group Photos / realboyle (Flickr account); individual photographer not stated, www.flickr.com
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gavigan 01 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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