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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Doonooney

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map and situated just off the N-facing slope of a small S-N spur at the N foothills of Camross Hill. It is known locally to have been an embanked enclosure removed in the 1970s. A slight curve in the field bank at W (C 20m) is the only indication of the monument.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX031-027

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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