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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardmore (orrery and Kilmore By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on E side of stream valley. Raised, roughly circular, saucer-shaped area (28.3m E-W; 26.8m N-S), defined by scarp (H 1.9m). Edge of enclosure disturbed to S where E-W field fence once existed; quarried into to W. Fosse (D 0.25m) survives to NW, with faint traces visible to N and NE. Arc formed by outer bank ENE->WSW with external fosse visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Site overgrown with hawthorn bushes. Enclosure (CO002-120---) c. 20m to SE in same field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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