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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Aclint

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a N-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on Google Earth (29/06/2018), but the fosse appears to be absent S-W. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH010-023

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Vicente Fernández Rioja, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Nuala Furley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Dasmuy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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