Red Castle Fort, fairy fort in County Laois

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What is recorded here

Situated atop high ground with good panoramic views in all directions. A massive subcircular bivallate earthen ringfort (max. ext. diam. c. 120m) defined by an inner bank (Wth c. 3.7m), best preserved at S, an intervening fosse (Wth c. 7.5m), and an outer bank (Wth c. 9m) and an outer fosse (Wth c. 5-5m, int. D c. 2.7m, ext. D c. 1m) except at S. Site of unclassified castle (LA017-002001-) lies in the interior, the site of which is marked by a cottage built for a WW1 veteran that was built on top of a low platform that indicates the site of the 'Redcastle'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA017-002002

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LoriStrang, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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David Maher / Laois Nationalist; credited beside lead photograph, www.laois-nationalist.ie

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