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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Dunsrim

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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Located on a rise on a NE-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream c. 50m to the SW. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure defined by field walls. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 28.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth c. 4m; int. H c. 0.2m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) but no facing stones are identified. The original entrance is not recognised, but the perimeter is slightly clipped by a NW-SE field wall at SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO021-007

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Allie_Caulfield from Germany, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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