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Fairy fort / ringfort in Cullenhugh

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on low lying slightly uneven wet grassland, with views restricted by surrounding gently undulating land. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an irregular-shaped enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular shaped earthwork located immediately N of a laneway leading to a farm building located W of earthwork. No surface remains of levelled earthwork. A sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 26.5m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) enclosed by a cropmark of dark vegetation representing the levelled enclosing element. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2017

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