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Fairy fort / ringfort in Clonboy or Ballinacor

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a plateau of a steep hill in a woodland plantation with Clonboy House 165m to SSE. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 25m) standing inside a woodland plantation. Levelled monument described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. Cropmark of levelled circular-shaped earthwork is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Possible ringfort. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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What survives
Recorded monument

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