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Embanked enclosure in Dangan, fairy fort (RO011-142----)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Official monument number
RO011-142----
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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank on the 1914 ed. Situated on the SSE-facing slope of a low broad hill, it is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-142

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