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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Skreeny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on top of a prominent drumlin that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 900m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.1m; H 0.7m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge S-N-E but is reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.5m) E-S. The monument is bisected E-W by a disused farm track, but the original entrance is not identified. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Situated on top of a prominent drumlin that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 900m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.1m; H 0.7m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge S-N-E but is reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.5m) E-S. The monument is bisected E-W by a disused farm track, but the…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE007-078

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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