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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballintober

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a low ridge, on S-facing slope of a high hill. Ringfort (WM031-046----) lies c. 106m to SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. The interior has a slight S-facing slope with the remains of broad cultivation ridges. visible. Monument is obscured today by an area of scrub on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Situated on a low ridge, on S-facing slope of a high hill. Ringfort (WM031-046----) lies c. 106m to SE. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. The interior has a slight S-facing slope with the remains of…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM031-045

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Wayne77, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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