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Embanked enclosure in Dunmain

Fairy fort / ringfort

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What is recorded here

Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a slight E-facing slope. It is now bisected by a N-S field bank but no features are visible at ground level in a root crop to the W and a cereal crop to the E.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX039-017

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David Purchase, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • seegraswiese, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Redmond O'Brien, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Julie Anne Workman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Myers, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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