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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinvira

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, immediately N of disused trackway and railway line. Oval area (40m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), best preserved S->N. Bank incorporated into linear dry-stone field wall NNE->ESE. Gaps in bank at SE (Wth 10m) and N (Wth 3m). Field wall kinks around external base of bank W->N. Interior, covered with briars, nettles and thorn trees, is higher in N half where limestone outcrops at surface. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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