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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisnasillagh, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular overgrown area forty metres across on a shelf of a SW-facing slope towards the bottom of Skrine Hill. A five-metre-wide earthen bank stands one point seven metres high beside a rounded fosse, while a thinner outer bank survives except along the north-west to north-east edge. A four-metre-wide entrance opens at the west.
On a shelf of a SW-facing slope towards the bottom of Skrine Hill. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; ext. H 1.7m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; D 1.45m) from an outer bank (Wth 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m), which does not survive NW-NE. There is an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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