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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisdeegin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated just S of the summit of a high drumlin ridge in pasture-land. A much-disturbed, slightly raised, formerly circular area (int. diam. 29.9m) enclosed by a very slight earthen bank from S-SSW. Elsewhere the plan of the site has been much distorted by the erection of modern field boundaries.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV021-054

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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