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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dundian

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located towards the N end of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted as an embanked enclosure and described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m NW-SE; c. 32m NE-SW) defined by traces of an earthen bank SE-W-NW which was incorporated into a field bank NW-NE and a road bank NE-SE, but only the road bank survives now.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO003-031

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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