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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Socks

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise at the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is a grass and crub-covered subcircular area (dims 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 3m) S-NW and NNE-ESE. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but it is regarded locally as a fort. The monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank at N and an ENE-WSW roadway at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE015-159

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willie Duffin, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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  • Raymond Bell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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