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Fairy fort or ringfort in Kilnagrange

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked as a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m N-S; c. 55m E-W) incorporating a field bank N-E on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in pasture on a gentle S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level, and is now occupied by a farmyard.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA015-029

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