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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kiltotan and Collinstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on gentle NNE-SSW slope of low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM033-066----) 370m to the SSW. Only the cropmark of a levelled ringfort is visible on the 2005 OSI aerial photograph. Hachured as a large oval-shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument described in 1976 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 75m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse which are best preserved at N and are barely visible elsewhere. There is a small causeway across the fosse at N which may be an original entrance feature. The ringfort was bisected by a 19th century field boundary running NW-SE. The field to the S of this field boundary was in tillage in 2005, while the field to the N is in pasture. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2013

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