What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardmullan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular grass-covered area towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope on Ardmullan Hill, overlooking the SE corner of Lough Funshinagh. A large turlough lies about 450m to the NW. The site contains an earthen bank with bushes, an outer fosse, and a less substantial bank elsewhere, but no identifiable original entrance remains visible.

Towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope of Ardmullan Hill overlooking the SE corner of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough c. 450m to the NW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.3m NNW-SSE; 31.3m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank with bushes (at SSE: Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.05m) and an outer fosse (at SSE: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 0.7m; D 0.3m) ESE-WNW, and a less substantial bank (at NNW: Wth 4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.85m) elsewhere N of a WNW-ESE field bank which bisects the interior. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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