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Fairy fort or ringfort in Ballyhoreen

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Situated on S facing slope of a gentle rise with extensive views to E, S & NW. Ringfort (WM011-091----) 370m to W. The road which marks the boundary with Grange townland is 5m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular enclosure annotated as ‘pit or old fort’. Depicted as a quarry and not as an…

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Situated on S facing slope of a gentle rise with extensive views to E, S & NW. Ringfort (WM011-091----) 370m to W. The road which marks the boundary with Grange townland is 5m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular enclosure annotated as ‘pit or old fort’. Depicted as a quarry and not as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site is almost completely levelled. All that remains is a large irregular shaped quarry hole and spoil heaps. Local information suggests that stone was quarried from this location to build Grange Hall, which is 500m to W. May have been a ringfort that was quarried out for materials to build Grange Hall. Alternatively the site may have been a quarry with no ringfort at this location.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM011-092

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Not stated on source page, www.westmeathexaminer.ie
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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