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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tullykenny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Located N of the summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This was described in 1968 as a raised and slightly dished D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (dims 39m NW-SE; 28.8m NE-SW) that sloped down slightly to the NE (H 1.4m). It was defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) SSW-N, with traces of a fosse outside it W-N and a farm track SSW-W. The perimeter was represented by a field bank with farm buildings immediately outside it SE-SSW, and the monument was cut at E by a NW-SE field bank. The original entrance was not identified. The monument had been removed by 2000 (OSAP).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO009-046

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Walking with a phone, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Enda O Flaherty, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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