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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Porterstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on SW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described in 1976 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 39.5m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The earthen bank is best preserved from NE-E and at SW and is almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The bank has been dug away on the…

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Situated on SW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Monument described in 1976 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 39.5m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The earthen bank is best preserved from NE-E and at SW and is almost reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The bank has been dug away on the exterior at WNW. The wide fosse is best preserved from NNW-N-E. An entrance gap (Wth at top 4.8m; Wth at base 1.6m) and causeway (Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.2m; H 0.35m) are visible at NE. The interior has a WSW-facing slope and a possible Man-made underground passage (WM027-010001-) is visible in the SSW quadrant. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM027-010

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  • Royalcanalrunner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Photographer not named; image published by Ciarán Leech & Associates Ltd, www.ciaranleech.ie
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • MookiePlays, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Robin Pollard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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