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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drom (magunihy By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In level pasture, above a steep fall of ground down to the river which is c. 50m to the NE. A raised roughly circular heavily overgrown area (c. 26m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m). The interior is covered in ferns. A break at SE may indicate the entrance. Field boundaries abut the bank at N and S. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the outer face of the bank at NNE and SSW. This is one of the three raths recorded in Drom townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Clem.T. Cooper's, one in John G. Cooper's and another in Florence T. Cooper's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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