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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graigoor

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, atop low hill. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 23.4m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.35m). Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved along S arc, is truncated by dry-stone field boundary WSW->NNW. Fosse, best preserved NNW->E, is not evident outside field boundary WSW->NNW. Bank has remains of external stone facing NNW->NE. Entrance at ESE but masked by dense growth of briars. Interior, heavily masked by overgrowth, slopes down gently to SSW. Another ringfort lies 10.5m to N (LI019-20002-). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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