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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathwilladoon

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In level grassland. This poorly preserved D-shaped rath (41.3m N-S; 38.3m E-W), with a straight SW side, is defined by a collapsed bank of earth and stone, which is obscured by overgrowth from NW through E to S. Elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA128-068

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Nigel Thompson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Leomyhero at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Robert Bone, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Paul Woods, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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