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Fairy fort / ringfort in Higginstown (fartullagh By.)

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Only a short curving section of a cropmark or vegetation stain marks the location of a ringfort that was levelled during land improvement works carried out c.1956. Monument was located on a slight rise of ground with possible ringfort (WM033-003----) located 160m to the NW. Depicted as a large subrectangular shaped-enclosure or possible ringfort (dims. c. 50m NNW-SSE; c. 33m E-W) defined by an enclosing bank on the revised edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 March 2013

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