What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bracklon stands on a gentle NE-facing slope in County Longford, Ireland. Its low earth bank and waterlogged fosse mark a subrectangular enclosure where a modern roadway has cut through the eastern edge. The original entrance has vanished beneath traffic and time, leaving only a buried threshold for imagination to cross.
On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subrectangular area (32.2m NE-SW; 25.65m NW-SE) enclosed by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5m; H 0.1-0.9m) with a deep, partially waterlogged external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 1.3m). It has been levelled from NNE-E-ESE where it is bordered by a modern roadway. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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