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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ráth Ciaráin

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This site, marked as a circular enclosure on the first edition of the OS map, is no longer extant. It was known locally as a 'fort' and was located just S of Ballynahow river, overlooking St Finan's Bay. Cork University Press (1996), no. 685.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE087-054

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