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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clonydonnin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. The Athlone to Clara railway line lies c. 15m to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32m) defined by a scarp with external fosse, entrance gap at E . The interior has an E-facing slope. 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: 29 November 2019

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