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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Canty

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Marked as an enclosure on the 1840 and 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch man and situated in an undulating landscape. Circular platform (diam. 28m) with slight traces of a fosse at N. It is planted with coniferous trees.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA030-021

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Slamforeman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
  • Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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