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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Aghalee More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In rough scrub land, on a SW-facing slope. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 44m) defined by an earthen bank SW-SE and by a scarp (H 2m) SE-SW. The interior slopes down to the SW and is covered in rough scrub. There are cattle gaps at E, SE and W. The outer face of the bank along the N arc and the area outside this was not inspected due to dense overgrowth. Indicated as a roughly rectangular field on the 1894 OS 6-inch map with field boundaries radiating from it at NE, SSE, SW and WNW. The field boundaries at SSE and SW have been removed.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE058-142

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  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Berthold Strucken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Clint Mann, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Bkwillwm, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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