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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynacarrig

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on the W-facing slope of an E-W spur with small E-W streams c. 170-200m to the N and S, and the N-S River Slaney is c. 650m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m) defined by a single fosse feature that is partly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (51) 23, 24). Compiled by: Michael Moore 31 August, 2012 Amended: 2 May, 2014

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