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Fairy fort or ringfort in Dranagh

Fairy fort / ringfort

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 150m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX025-006

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