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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 200m E of a N-S section of the Boyle River. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 23.5-24.5m) in reclaimed pasture defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.7m), with a fosse (Wth of top 3-3.5m; D 0.1m) WNW-NE. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is truncated at SE by a NNE-SSW field bank. Rath (RO007-069----) is c. 60m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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