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Fairy fort or ringfort in Tominearly

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a subcircular enclosure (dims. c. 45m N-S; c. 40m E-W) at the junction of three field banks on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a fairly level landscape. No feature is visible at ground level in a cereal crop.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX024-056

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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