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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockbeg West

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In undulating pasture. Indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachured bank SSE-S and a hachured scarp W-N. Now evident as a raised circular area (int. diam. 39m) defined along the S arc by a short section of an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) and along the N arc by a scarp (H 1m). Elsewhere the interior slopes to merge with the external ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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