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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killavally

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a SW-facing slope of long, roughly N-S running ridge, with forestry planted along top of ridge. Monument surrounded by pasture. Oval area (diam. 33.7m E-W; N-S not obtainable) enclosed by broad, high, earthen and stone bank (Wth 3.3m crest; int. H 1.08m; ext. H 1.63-2.29m). Scrub growing around bank and in SW quadrant. The interior, sloping to SW, is grass and nettle filled. The bank is very high above the exterior, particularly upslope to NE. A field bank, with a lot of small boulders, runs NW-SE c. 10m NE of ringfort and terminates directly E of monument. There is no visible external fosse. The bank is reduced to scarp in the SE-SW-NW quadrant. Limited dumping of stones against external face of bank in the SW quadrant. A portion of bank in the WNW sector has slipped towards the exterior. Ground level in the interior is quite disturbed, the result of small scale quarrying, with small hollow in SE quadrant with upcast to NE and SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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