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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Reask

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 37.3m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse, both of which have been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from SSW-W-NNW. From NNW-N a field boundary runs immediately outside of the site. Here the fosse has been levelled in and the bank is slight. Break in bank at SE with remains of accompanying causeway may represent original entrance.
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 37.3m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse, both of which have been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from SSW-W-NNW. From NNW-N a field boundary runs immediately outside of the site. Here the fosse has been levelled in and the bank is slight. Break in bank at SE with remains of accompanying causeway may represent original…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV025-105

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  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at

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