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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Vesnoy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

On an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.6m E-W; 30.2m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.4m W-N to 5.4-5.6m E-S; int. H 0.5m at W to 0.9m at N; ext. H 0.6m at W to 1.2m at N) with no visible fosse. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 2m) at SE. Rath (RO023-175----) is c. 180m to the NNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-176

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Photo credits
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Irish Defence Forces, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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