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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Shanvogh

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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What is recorded here

Situated at the W edge of a low plateau overlooking the valley of a SW-NE stream, c. 120m to the SW. A circular overgrown area (int. dims. c. 27m E-W; 24.1m N-S) defined by a stone spread (at N: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), with a drystone wall on the perimeter W-NNE. There are no visible facing stones, and the only gap at NE is not original. The interior is overlain by remnants of drystone field walls, and the outer edge of the perimeter is ovarlain by field spoil E-NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL033-071

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Photo credits
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • soilse, flickr
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • GAA; photographer not named in photo caption, www.gaa.ie
  • Sheila1988, Wikimedia Commons
  • Kilmaley GAA Club (publisher; photographer not named), Source publisher
  • Charles W Glynn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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