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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killachonna

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 38m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) defined by a townland boundary along the straight side to NW. Monument is visible as a tree-lined, scrub-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM030-081

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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