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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinderry Big

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a small rise, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 25.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) enclosed by a very low bank mainly reduced to a scarp with shallow external fosse only visible from SW-W-NW-N-NE. There is a causewayed entrance (approx. Wth 4m) at NE. The interior is level and there are no features visible. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 December 2019

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