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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a subrectangular embanked enclosure (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a low N-S esker ridge. Described as a circular area defined by the remains of a stone wall which was absent W-N and overlain by the N-S townland boundary with Turlaghmore (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO051-050001-) is c. 200m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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