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Embanked enclosure in Glencairn

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Marked as a subrectangular wooded enclosure (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, and as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) in a small rectangular field on the 1923 ed. Situated in pasture towards the top of a SE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level, but it is visible as a cropmark of a bivallate subrectangular enclosure on an OSI series of vertical photographs (2005). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 January 2012
Marked as a subrectangular wooded enclosure (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, and as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) in a small rectangular field on the 1923 ed. Situated in pasture towards the top of a SE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level, but it is visible as a cropmark of a bivallate subrectangular enclosure on an OSI series of…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA020-020

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Photo-raven, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ftlombardo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Jonathan Billinger, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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