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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyegny Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), has been levelled and surrounding field boundaries removed. However, short arc of scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1.4m) is evident approximately on line of edge of enclosure at NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI028-033

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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