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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballybeg East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by worn, earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.35m); external fosse (D 0.55m) E->SW. Bank heavily overgrown with bushes except to SE; topped by stone field boundary N->E. Quarry immediately outside NW bank. 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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