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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisnaveane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a rise in a col with higher ground c. 250m to the W and c. 200m to the E and with lower ground to the N and S. it is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped hachured feature on the N side of an E-W road. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 26.5m E-W; c. 15.5m N-S) defined by a curved and overgrown scarp (at N: Wth 1.7m; H 2m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 18 June 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO018-030

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.geograph.ie
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Rockcorry GAA Club; individual photographer not named, www.flickr.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
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