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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clonmore South (Ardmayle parish) is in County Tipperary, Ireland. This scrub-covered, raised D-shaped area sits on a low knoll in wet flat grassland with wide views, measuring about 29 metres from northwest to southeast and 27 metres from southwest to northeast. It is defined by a bank reduced to a scarp 1.2 metres high and an outer ditch that has been filled in from the northeast through east to the southeast. The straight southern side, some 22 metres long, is cut by an east-west field boundary, and no clear entrance is visible.
On top of a low knoll in wet flat grassland with good views in all directions. Scrub-covered raised D-shaped area (int. diam. 29m NW-SE; 27m SW-NE) defined by a bank which has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) and outer fosse (top Wth 5.8m; base Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.7m) which has been filled in from NE through E to SE. Straight side at S (L 22m) where it is intersected by a field boundary on an E-W axis. There is no clear entrance feature visible. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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