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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cappagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In pasture, on NE-facing slope, below brow of low hill. Oval area (30m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 1.45m; Wth 1.9m). Bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 2m), best preserved along W arc, lowers to scarp-like edge (H 1m; Wth 5m) NNW->NNE. Fosse, cut by field boundary at NNE, has field boundary running along outer edge at E. Narrow causeway (Wth 2m) across fosse at NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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