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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killynebber

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

Large raised roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 79m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide fosse. Site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary running NNW-SSE, ENE of which the enclosing features were levelled in the late 1980s. At the remainder of the site the fosse has been infilled but its outline may still be traced. Original entrance not recognisable.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV020-054

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What survives
Recorded monument

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Adam Simpson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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