Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Griffinstown

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What is recorded here

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which appears to have been quarried across much of the NW portion. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM027-057

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