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Fairy fort or ringfort in Forrest Great

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on level grassland. This site was formerly a platform type ringfort (diam. c. 50m) with a waterlogged external fosse (Healy 1975, 23). It's southeastern quadrant has been truncated by works associated with Dublin airport but the majority of the ringfort is visible as a crop mark on the Bird'sEye viewer of Bing.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU011-043

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  • Swords Golf Club; photographer not stated, Swords Golf Club
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Gareth James, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Cg.wiki, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • BaronNethercross, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons
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