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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Peast (MO027-089----)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated at the SE end of a slight NW-SE ridge that is on a NE-facing slope overlooking a small dry closed valley. A small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) with a farm lane curving around it NE-S and farm buildings just to the W is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as a D-shaped enclosure with straight sides at W and N on the 1907 edition. This is a subcircular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by field banks, and is used as a haggard. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 February 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO027-089

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MO027-089----
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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