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Fairy fort or ringfort in Clone

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated at the N end of a slight S-N ridge in the flood-plain if the ENE-WSW River Bann, with the stream c. 70m to the N. There is no visible evidence of an antiquity.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX015-014

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • 瑞丽江的河水, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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