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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killyfuddy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated at the NE end of long NE-SW drumlin ridge. It is represented as an enclosure on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. On the 1907 edition of the 6-inch map it is reduced to a curve in a field bank NE-SW. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but the field wall boundary NE-SE curves E (Chord c. 28m) around what was its E edge. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO012-075

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