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Raheennagaurlagh, Hachured

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In improved pasture, on a W-facing slope, abutting a townland boundary with Tullabeg to S. Annotated ‘Raheennagaurlagh’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure intersected at S by a public road running E-W. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (20m E-W; 13m N-S) defined by a levelled bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.05; ext. H 0.35m) from SW-W-NW and from NE–ENE-E, which is reduced to scarp from SE-SSE-S. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and a sketch plan which was measured and drawn by the ASI in 2008. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 September 2020

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