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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ryefield East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO052-019

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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  • David Hawgood, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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