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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated in a valley with a small stream running S-N immediately to the E. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 33.5m NNE-SSW; 28m ESE-WNW) defined by an intermittently visible earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m at W to 1.3m at S) with some bushes, and a slight external fosse (at W: Wth of base 3m; D 0.1m) S-NW. The perimeter has been quarried (H 2.8-3.4m) NNW-NE, and the original entrance is not identified. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Situated in a valley with a small stream running S-N immediately to the E. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 33.5m NNE-SSW; 28m ESE-WNW) defined by an intermittently visible earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m at W to 1.3m at S) with some bushes, and a slight external fosse (at W: Wth of base 3m; D 0.1m) S-NW. The perimeter has been quarried (H 2.8-3.4m) NNW-NE, and the original…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE022-011

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Kenraiz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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