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Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Not indciated is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Knockaculleen OR Hollymount, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as a circular feature on aerial photographs and sits towards the bottom of a south-facing slope overlooking a stream seventy metres distant. The grass-covered area measures thirty-four to thirty-five and a half metres across and contains a fragment of a north-west-south-east field bank. Michael Moore compiled the description on twenty-four August 2010.
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 149-50), and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a SW-NE stream, c. 70m distant. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 35.5m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.3m at W to 2.9m at S; int. H 0.1m at W to 0.8m at E; ext. H 0.1m at N to 1m at S). There is no visible entrance, but a fragment of a NW-SE field bank overlies the interior towards the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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