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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rossnakilla

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) to E and W; scarp (H 1m) to S; to N by sharp drop (H 1m) down to interior. Bank stone-faced externally. Interior cut into hillside to N and raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. One of two adjoining roughly circular fields on 1904 OS 6-inch map; locally known as ringfort.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO082-059

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Gordon Hatton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • El Gringo ( talk ) ( Uploads ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Echo Live; individual photographer not stated on accessible page (article by Barry O’Mahony), www.echolive.ie
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  • Adrian King, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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