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Fairy fort / ringfort in Rath (moygoish By., Rathowen Ed)

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a very low rise in fairly well-drained pasture land with wide views of the surrounding countryside, bogland 200m to NNE. Stream 30m to W which marks county boundary with Longford. Ringfort (LF020-020---) 40m to NNW, second ringfort (WM006-001----) 250m to SSE. No surface remains visible of levelled ringfort possible. The enclosure is marked on all editions of the OS 6 inch maps as an antiquity. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 November 2016

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