Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ashfield Demesne

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What is recorded here

On the brow of a low esker ridge, overlooking Colman’s Lough to the S. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 15m; max. diam. c. 27m). No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA128-007

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