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Embanked enclosure in Drumatemple

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 65m N-S; c. 45m E-W) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SW-facing slope of a slight WNW-ESE ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO034-026

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