
What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Garranlahan Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a knoll on the west-facing slope of a slight north-west to south-east valley. A subcircular grass-covered area measures thirty-one metres east-west and twenty-seven point two metres north-south. An earthen bank two to three metres wide surrounds the space, reaching ninety centimetres to one point four metres high externally.
On a knoll on the W-facing slope of a slight NW-SE valley. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 31m E-W; 27.2m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.9-1.4m) with no visible fosse, which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge S-W-N. A drain has been dug inside the bank W-N, but there is no evidence of an original entrance. Just N of the centre is a subcircular hut-site (RO032-017003-) (int. dims 4.5m E-W; 3.4m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stoney bank (Wth 1.7-2.8m; H 0.1-0.5m) with an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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