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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dungillick

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located at the crest of the N-facing slope of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge and c. 100m SW of Dungillick House. A complete circular enclosure defined by a field bank is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and a portion of an enclosure is shown on the 1907 edition. It is known locally as a fort and portion of the bank is preserved in a field bank SW-W-N (Chord 31m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO003-043

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Vyacheslav Argenberg from Seattle, WA, USA, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • James O'Neill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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