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Ballycatten Fort

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The ancient fort of Ballycatten, the second largest ringfort in Ireland. This fort with its triple ramparts saw many a battle and it was at this ancient spot that the Vikings were first defeated in a pitch battle by the Munster men in AD 910

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Wikipedian231, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andy Beecroft, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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