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Embanked enclosure in Ballyfin

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1924 ed. It is situated on a slight rise on a S-facing slope. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX016-017

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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