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Earthwork in Faughart Upper

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Earthwork in Faughart Upper
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Map note: Find the recorded point for Earthwork in Faughart Upper, an earthwork around Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.
Tradition of fort having been removed here. (SMR file, 27 June 1968) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 16 November 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH004-038

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  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
  • TommyMurf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, co.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • James O'Neill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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