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Fine arts > Architecture > Vernacular architecture > Ringforts

Preferred term

Ringforts

Definition(s)

Small earthen [raths] or stone [cashels] enclosures, which served as fortified, self-sufficient farmsteads for the more prominent members of a settlement; Ireland and Wales

Broader concept(s)

Vernacular architecture

Related concept(s)

Farms
Forts

Synonym(s)

Cashels
Farmsteads, ringforts
Raths
Ring forts
Ring-forts

Notation

118749

In other languages

Ringfort

French

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-P0D6MQDC-0

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