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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballycoony

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

On a low hill in grassland. Circular cashel (diam. 40.5m), in fair condition, defined by a low drystone wall. A gap at ENE may be original. A field boundary overlies the cashel wall from ENE to ESE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA105-012

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Picture: Wikimedia Commons
  • Jason Keane, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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