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Fairy fort or ringfort in Tattyboy

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a curve of a field bank (Chord c. 30m E-W) W-NE that is bisected by a NW-SE field boundary on the 1907 edition. The 1907 map also has a misleading curved feature extending N and E from its E edge. A slight curve in a field wall with bushes and spoil built on top of a scarp survives N-E in a field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO029-010

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Cathar11, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • David Crozier, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • HENRY CLARK, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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