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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Derrygrath Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On the edge of the crest of a ridge. The SE quadrant is in pasture and the bank in the W quadrant is incorporated in a field boundary. A field boundary running NE-SW transects the ringfort, the remainder of the monument is levelled, in a barley field. The monument is marked as a large, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 67m N-S; c. 57m E-W) on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. The bank, (Wth 2m crest, 4.4m base; int. H 0.32m; ext. H 0.8m) is best preserved in the SE quadrant. There is no visible evidence of an external fosse. Neighbouring ringforts (TS082-018002-;TS082-018003-) lie 9.3m to the SE and c. 85m to the SSE respectively. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 January 2014

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