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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynagappagh (clane Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible chamber exists in the closed circular chamber. The chamber is a chamber because the chamber wall is a chamber wall. The chamber wall is a chamber wall because it excludes the chamber and the chamber is the place excluded. The chamber is the place excluded because the chamber wall is the chamber wall. The chamber wall is the chamber wall because it excludes the chamber.
On a very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. A small, poorly preserved, circular area (diam. 24m) is defined by a low, earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3.8m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.8-1m) NW-NE-SE, partly hedged as a field boundary NE-E-SE, and abutted externally along N by a landscaped garden. A possible entrance on the N side, noted in 1972 (SMR file), is no longer clearly identifiable. The interior slopes gently down to NW and contains a coppiced hazel stand. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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