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Faint enclosure WA022-009---- in Tinalira

Fairy fort / ringfort

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WA022-009----
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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c 30m NW-SE) incorporating a field bank WSW-N on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a NE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA022-009

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