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Sallow Fort

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What is recorded here

Situated on a NW-SE ridge, it is described as ‘Sallow Fort’ on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a circular, slightly domed and grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a fosse (at SSE: Wth of top 5.8m; Wth of base 1m; int. D 1m; ext. D 0.9m: 3.2m) and an overgrown outer bank (at SSE: Wth of base 7.5m; ext. H 0.6m), best preserved SSE-SW but visible all around. At NNE the bank is reduced (Wth 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) and the berm is reduced to a berm (Wth 4m). There is a line of boulders (L 6.2m) on the edge of the platform at S and an entrance (Wth 2.9m) through the outer bank at SE. The interior is bisected by a NE-SW field bank with a drain on the SE side.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME003-013

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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