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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Creagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In tillage on NE side of disused railway line. Originally circular enclosure, hachured on OS 6-inch map (1842). Railway destroyed SW half. To NE, semicircular area enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.9m). Bank and interior heavily overgrown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO150-006

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Superbass, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • George Victor Du Noyer MRIA (1817 – 3 January 1869), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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