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Fairy fort / ringfort in Kilgar

Fairy fort / ringfort
Fairy fort / ringfort in Kilgar
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Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019----) 200m to SE. This site has been almost completely levelled, now visible only as a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 42m N-S; 46m E-W) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior has vague traces of two rectangular hut sites (WM008-016001-/016002-). Cultivation ridges aligned NNW-SSE run across the interior of the monument. A gap (Wth 4.5m) in the band of vegetation at WNW may represent an entrance. This site is clearly visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017

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