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Indicated — Donaghintraine

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Indicated — Donaghintraine
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Situated on the N side of a low E-W ridge. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised D-shaped area (23m E-W; 17m N-S) enclosed on the curving side at W-E by an earthen bank (Wth. 4.4m; H 0.6m), and on the straight side at S by a modern field fence on a roughly E–W axis. No trace of the enclosure survives to S of this field fence. At W–NW the bank is levelled to a slight scarp. At NE, c. 2.5m from the outer foot of the bank, are remnants of an embankment (H 0.9m) which is faced with stones on its N side. The interior is bisected roughly centrally by a NNW-SSE field boundary. This appears to be the remains of a circular rath, the S half of which has been levelled. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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