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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Shankill

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on top of a hillock. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 23.2m NNE-SSW) defined by a largely overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 2.6-3.6m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 0.4m at NNE to 1.3m at SSW) with an internal stone facing that creates a rather flat top (at NNE: Wth 2m). There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth of base 2m) is at ESE. There is a rectangular house site (ext. dims 9.7m NE-SW; 8.3m NW-SE) defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 1.6m; max. H 0.5m) at the centre, with entrance gaps at NW (Wth 1.4m) and SE (Wth 1.6m). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO027-059001

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  • Maker not stated on source page, pixels.com
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.rootsireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
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