What is recorded here
This site is marked as a small circular enclosure on the first edition of the OS map, and is titled 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan. It is located on gentle sloping pasture on the N bank of the Valencia river and commands a view over Valencia Harbour to SW. It survives as an ovalshaped platform, truncated on its N side by…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE079-104
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Michael G Kenny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- JoachimKohlerBremen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mat Tuck, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Russel Wills, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Theboykenny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Donal.hunt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.irishstar.com
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