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Tullagh Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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On a gentle rise beside a stream with good views and in an area of rough undulating pasture with nearby signs of earlier cultivation. Hachured and named ‘Tullagh Fort’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1913, 259-260) describes a rath in the townland of Tullagha ‘probably the ancient Tulach Chuirc’ with a…

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On a gentle rise beside a stream with good views and in an area of rough undulating pasture with nearby signs of earlier cultivation. Hachured and named ‘Tullagh Fort’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1913, 259-260) describes a rath in the townland of Tullagha ‘probably the ancient Tulach Chuirc’ with a rampart which is ‘31 feet thick’ which rises ‘6 feet over the garth’. He describes three gaps, ‘the third faces the east and was probably the ancient entrance’ and a waterlogged fosse (ibid.). A roughly circular rath (int. dims. 50m N-S; 48.5m E-W) defined by a steep-sided and flat-topped bank (Wth at base 10m; Wth at top 3m; H 3-4m) with possible entrances at E (Wth 1m) and SSE (Wth 8.5m) and a possible outer fosse visible as a flat-bottomed waterlogged depression (Wth 3.5m; D c. 1m) outside the bank from SE to N. The E and SSE entrances are stone-lined and may be original. Narrow cattle gaps occur at SW and NE. A low earthen bank orientated E-W (H 0.3m; Wth 2m) slightly E of centre divides the interior into two parts. The N section of the interior is marshy and waterlogged.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL016-023

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