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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Laraheen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Marked as a wooded enclosure on the 1839 (diam. c. 70m) and 1940 (diam. c. 60m) eds of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a slight rise on a steep NW-facing slope of the Bann River valley with the N-S stream c. 350m to the W. It was described in 1956 as a subcircular wooded area (dims. c. 66m E-W; c. 60m N-S) defined by a stone-revetted scarp (H 1.5m at W to 0.9m at N) W-N with a low bank E-S, and farm buildings on the perimeter S-W (SMR file). Fram buildings and spoil obscure most of the site, except for a portion of original scarp at N (C 26m; H 2m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-018

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • surrealpenguin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 au
  • Picture: wexfordgaa.ie
  • Wexford GAA county website; individual photographer not named, wexfordgaa.ie
  • Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Goreymurphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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