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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Finnor

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On the gentle S-facing slope of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 20m NW-SE; 15.5m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3-1m) SE-W but the perimeter is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW where there is a farmyard and by a NW-SE field bank at SE. Man-made underground passage (RO010-095002-) is inside the perimeter at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-095001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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