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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynaskeha

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as broken line enclosing circular area (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 182), 'lios of circular plan and moderate size, but this has been levelled'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO064-038

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jonathan Billinger, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Erin’s Own Cork club update by Mary Bowen; individual photographer not stated, erinsowngaa.ie
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