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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Sheefin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on the edge of a steep high scarp with extensive views from S-W-N. A small slightly raised oval shaped area (approx. diam. 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and deep external fosse. The bank is well preserved from NNE-S-SW. The fosse has been disturbed by rabbit burrows. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE. The monument is now located in a plantation of trees visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 February 2018

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