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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killintown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on top of a steep hillock, large modern quarry in are where monument is marked on OS 6-inch map. Ringfort (WM007-081----) 320m to W. Annotated as ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map, and depicted as a circular hachured oval enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. An ASI field report from 1975 described the monument as a denuded ringfort (approx. diam. 20m N-S; 15m E-W) located on top of a steep hillock. This site has been completely levelled and is now the site of a quarry.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM007-082

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Picture notes
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this garden.
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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