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Fairy fort or ringfort in Island Upper

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a slight knoll. This is a slightly raised and circular, grass-covered area (diam. 35m; H c. 0.3-0.5m) bisected by a NNE-SSW field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-056

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  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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