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Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Internal diam. 27.5m ENE-WSW, 23.5m NNW-SSE Lisleibane/Lios Leadhbáin: This poorly preserved caher is located in rough pasture between Knockroe and Knocknafreaghaun mountains, just S of the expansive plain of the Laune river. Roughly oval in plan, it is enclosed by a largely collapsed bank of stone and earth. This…

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Internal diam. 27.5m ENE-WSW, 23.5m NNW-SSE Lisleibane/Lios Leadhbáin: This poorly preserved caher is located in rough pasture between Knockroe and Knocknafreaghaun mountains, just S of the expansive plain of the Laune river. Roughly oval in plan, it is enclosed by a largely collapsed bank of stone and earth. This averages 1.5m in external height, .7m high internally and 2m wide. A slightly battered external facing of drystone masonry is preserved in much of its N sector. Internal facing survives only in its SW quadrant. The central area and the SW quadrant of the caher are occupied by the remnants of two circular huts. That at W (KE065-098002-), located just inside the enclosing wall, measures 4.6m x 4.3m internally and features an entrance gap at S. Its wall footings survive up to 1.1m high and up to 1.7m wide. Adjacent at E is the second hut (KE065-098003-), 4m in internal diameter, which features a 1.5m wide entrance gap at E. Its wall footings stand up to .8m high and 2.5m wide. The site is locally reputed to contain a Man-made underground passage (KE065-098001-). Cork University Press (1996), no. 604.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE065-098

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