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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowntryla, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southeast-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring thirty-eight metres east-west and thirty-five metres north-south. An earthen bank and shallow fosse define the boundary, while a hedge incorporated into a field bank marks the southeast and southwest sections. A two-and-a-half-metre entrance opens at the east-northeast, and Rath lies one hundred and eighty metres further east-northeast.
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) and hedge which was incorporated into a field bank SSE- SW, and a shallow fosse (Wth of base c. 2m; D 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.5m) at ENE. Rath (RO029-068----) is c. 180m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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