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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Sheebeg

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Located towards the top of the steep W-facing slope of Sheebeg, just above a shelf on that slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 35.5m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W), but no facing-stones are visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.5m) at SE, and the monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field wall (L 20m) at S. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Located towards the top of the steep W-facing slope of Sheebeg, just above a shelf on that slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 35.5m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W), but no facing-stones are visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.5m) at SE, and the monument is truncated by…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE028-016

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Pictures: John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Adie Jackson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; jonleebotany, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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