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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumconnick

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Not marked on any OS ed. Identified as a cropmark from aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGL 87).Circular area (int. diam. c. 33.6m) enclosed by a wide, low, ill-defined scarp, presumably the outline of the levelled bank and fosse. Break in scarp at NE may represent original entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV020-028

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Photo credits
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, archaeology.co.uk
  • Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.youtube.com
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