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Rathnalog

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Rathnalog is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathnallog, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle east-facing slope as a grass-covered area measuring thirty-one point six metres north-south and twenty-two metres east-west. A five-metre-wide earthen bank and outer fosse define most of the perimeter, though a field bank truncates the western section. The entrance appears at the south-south-east, while a pond cuts the southern boundary.
On a gentle E-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.6m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.1m) N-E-S. The site is truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank and no visible feature survives W of this. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SSE, and the perimeter at S is cut by a pond. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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