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Embanked enclosure in Connagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight E-facing slope, it is marked as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature on the 1925 ed. It is described locally as an enclosure which was removed c. 1980. It is visible as a D-shaped cropmark enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature on aerial photographs (MM (9) 9-12). It is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX050-004

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  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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