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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynacleigh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin, this monument was covered in field spoil and generally overgrown in 1991. It is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured D-shaped feature (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 25-30m N-S) backing on to a straight field bank at W on the 1945 revision of the map. No archaeological feature could be identified at ground level, but it is probably a rath.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE031-042

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