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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tullycartron

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On a slight N-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 34m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.6m at W to 1.1m at E). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-001

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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