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Embanked enclosure in Kye

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with a crescent (dim. c. 10m N-S) attached to the perimeter E-SW on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the N-facing slope of a low E-W ridge drumlin ridge towards the E end. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO017-163

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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