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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Toom

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular slightly raised area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m), stone-faced in parts; silted-up external fosse. Bank and interior heavily overgrown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO108-010

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • SlaineMacRoth, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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  • Gordon Hatton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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