What is recorded here

Diffreen holds a D-shaped earthen ringfort on a slight south-facing slope in the Glencar valley. A grass-covered bank, four metres wide at the north, still marks the boundary before a field bank and the N16 road cut through the rest. The shape is small enough to walk around in minutes, yet it has survived ploughing, traffic and the patience of centuries.

Situated on a slight S-facing slope on the floor of the Glencar valley. It is visible as a feature on the OSI series of aerial images (2000, 2005) and those of Bing (2013). This is a D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (dims 24m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1m) NW-NE, reduced to a scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) SW-NW. It is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and by the road bank of the N16 Sligo to Manorhamilton road at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 2017

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