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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumerr

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumerr is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumerr, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears only on the 1914 Ordnance Survey map as a D-shaped enclosure measuring twenty-five metres northeast-southwest and twenty metres northwest-southeast towards the bottom of a southwest-facing drumlin slope. A semicircular bank with slight traces of an outer fosse is truncated by field banks at the northwest and southeast, but the site is not visible at ground level inside a coniferous forest.
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE), and situated towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Described as a semicircular bank with slight traces of an outer fosse truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NW and NE-SW field bank at SE (Gannon 1972), it is not visible at ground level in a coniferous forest. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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