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Fairy fort or ringfort in Glen Upper

Fairy fort / ringfort

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA002-009

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What survives
Recorded monument

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Chmee2, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Irishtree, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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