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Fairy fort / ringfort in Portnashangan

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on NE facing slope of a slight rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland. Ecclesiastical enclosure (WM012-086002-), Portnashangan Church (WM012-086---) and graveyard (WM012-086001-) 60m to W. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure and annotated ‘fort’. On the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the monument is depicted as an irregular shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 60m E-W; 50m N-S) intersected by field boundary at E. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Faint crop mark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 February 2018

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