Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballymacurly South

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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a subrectangular or D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle W-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 140m distant. It is not visible at ground level on the lawn of a house.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO035-025

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