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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Stephenstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In farmyard, on upper edge of an E-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 22m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m; Wth at top 1.75m; total Wth 4.9m) SE-NW which is stone faced on exterior and is reduced to a steep scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 2.3m) NE-SE. Monument truncated by farmyard NW-NE. Fosse (basal Wth 1.5m; overall Wth 3.85m; Dth 0.45m) SE-NW is waterlogged W-NW and is feint (Wth c. 3m; D c. 0.1m) NE-SE. Interior is generally level and has been raised on its E-side to compensate for hillslope.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS061-123

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
  • Neil Theasby, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sarah777, transferred by Lvova, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Kurt Stüber [1], Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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