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Dotted outline

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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What is recorded here

In pasture on slight NE-facing slope, immediately NE of cashel (LI012-055----). Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m; base Wth 12.30m) with causewayed (L 6m; Wth. 0.95m) stone lined entrance (Wth 5m) at SW. The interior is undulating and strewn with rocks. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map the monument is depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped tree plantation. Outline of tree-covered monument visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019. See attached Google earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 25 June 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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