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Embanked enclosure in Towergare

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m), the perimeter of which is slightly constrained by field banks at S, on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a broad, low hill, it is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA017-055

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • RTG, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Brendan Tobin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jamie O’Keeffe / Copper Post, Fenor GAA section, copper-post.beehiiv.com
  • Dunhill GAA Club and Sports Centre; individual photographer uncredited, dunhillgaasc.ie
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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