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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyhammon

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a low E-W drumlin ridge. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO029-075

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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