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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort on a steep Kildare slope, its eastern half still marked by an overgrown earthen bank and faint outer ditch. A road and driveway cut through the west, reducing the original thirty-two-metre circle to a truncated reminder. The interior is now lawned and hedged, turning an ancient defensive ring into a quiet garden edge where human ownership has replaced older uncertainty.
On a moderately steep SW-facing pasture slope. The E-half of an originally circular area (diam. 32m N-S) is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; Wth 4.6m; ext H 1.2m) N-E-SSE, with traces of a shallow outer fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) surviving at NE and SE. The monument is truncated NE-SW by a road and by a broad driveway at S. The interior is lawned and hedged. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

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