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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at S. The rath has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF023-038

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Jamesco101, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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