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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ginnets Great

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise in the curved hollow at the base of the NW-facing slope of a NE-SW section of an esker ridge where it turns NW. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature (diam. c. 30m) with an entrance at SE is visible on aerial photographs (ME037-048_1 to _4). It has an internal fosse that is only visible W-N. The motte (ME037-020----) is overlooking it c. 50m to the SE. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018) Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Noel and Conor Murphy. Date of upload: 7 August, 2018 Amended: 21 August 2019

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