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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dooradoyle

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated in the centre of a housing estate. The monument is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth. The monument is depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular enclosure incorporated into a field boundary to W. The remains consist of a sub-rectangular area (diam. c. 26m N-S by c. 20m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H. 0.85m Wth. 1.6m) from NNW to SSW. The bank is best preserved to E. The bank has been revetted externally with concrete slabs to N and has been breached to NE and S to facilitate a concrete-slab path. A mortared stone wall (H 1m) truncates the enclosure from WNW to WSW. To the NW the bank survives 5m W of the mortared stone wall. The interior is uneven and is strewn with fallen deciduous trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 28 February 2013

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