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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Liscosker

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on a gravel ridge in undulating landscape. This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It is depicted on the 1919 edition as an oval enclosure (c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a fosse and an external bank, with the external bank truncated by a field boundary on the W arc. A Man-made underground passage (MA081-001002-) is indicated in the NE quadrant. The ridge has been quarried away, removing all trace of the rath.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA081-002001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Paul Cowan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Duncan Grant, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY 2.5
  • Jon Sullivan, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Neville Goodman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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