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ENCLOSURE: THE OLD FORT in Fathom Lower

ENCLOSURE: THE OLD FORT
ENCLOSURE: THE OLD FORT in Fathom Lower
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Enclosure: the Old Fort in Fathom Lower, County Armagh, Ireland, is an old fort whose exact age and builders have not survived to certainty. Its stones or earthworks may have marked a home, a refuge or a boundary, while people came and went under skies no longer named. What is certain is that the land still holds the shape of a choice made long before memory faded.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ENCLOSURE: THE OLD FORT. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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