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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rossline

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) planted with trees on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps, in field to N of Rossline House. Levelled; faint trace of circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R680). Known locally as cattle shelter.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO023-005

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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