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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballymacwilliam

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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At the highest point of a prominent NW-SE ridge in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that a slightly raised circular area (diam. 39.4m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank has since been levelled but a poorly defined scarp (max. H 0.5m) is evident from N-E-W. From W-N only its outline is identifiable. The fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.22m) survives from SE-S-NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A pronounced kink in a field boundary on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map probably mirrors the outline of the rath from roughly SSE-NNW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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