Aghaglassan Stone Ringfort — Report the wrong picture

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Aghaglassan is a stone ringfort in County Donegal, Ireland, measuring about twenty-one and a half metres across. It sits on an uncultivated pasture plateau overlooking the north, with higher ground behind it to the south. The low stone bank still marks most of the circle, though a road has taken the east side and the north wall has faded. The surviving stones suggest a small, defensible place where people lived, kept animals or claimed ownership of the land. Much of the original boundary has disappeared, but the circle still reads as a human shape imposed on open ground.

Internal diam. c. 21.5m. A subcircular area defined by a low bank composed of stones with some earth. The wall no longer survives to the NW and N, and the E side has been obliterated by the road, which is co-tangent to it. There is a possible entrance in the SW quadrant. It is situated on an uncultivated plateau used for pasture, over-looking the N, with higher ground to the S. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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