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Fairy fort / ringfort in Rathskeagh Upper

Fairy fort / ringfort
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Situated on a very slight natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views to the NW and ESE. Ringfort (WM024-016----) 95m to SW. Annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a bivallate earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as a partially levelled roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) enclosed by a scarp (H 1.4m) and external fosse. A very faint, low profile scarp is traceable and is best preserved to E. A slight fosse (Wth at top 5.3m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.6m) can be traced most of the way around, although it is partially obscured at E by a modern field fence running NNW-SSE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Much of the interior has been quarried away. Outline of poorly preserved monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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