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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Castletown Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated atop low natural hillock 130m E of Castletown Cottage. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Present remains consist of a natural oval-shaped hillock (approx. dims. 26m E-W; 20m N-S) the base of which is revetted by a low modern dry-stone wall. The low hill has been planted with trees and has the appearance of a post-1700 designed landscape feature associated with nearby Castletown Cottage. Possibly a ringfort modified as a tree-ring in the post 1700 period.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM001-005

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Peggy Ashby, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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