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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Castleland (gorey By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in pasture with a stream flowing NE-SW c. 20m to the E. Identified on Bing Images (c. 2013), it is also visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018). It consists of a large oval enclosure (dims. c. 57m NE-SW; c. 48m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with stones protruding from it (pers. comm. Ivor Kenny). The NE quadrant was surveyed with remote sensing techniques (12R0118) which showed that there were two fosse features and is probably a rath (Harte 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). See the attached view from Google Earth Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 April 2014 Amended: 17 December 2020; 23 July 2021

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