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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views to S. Depicted on the OS Fair Plan map as a small rectangular-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork which is truncated across the N sector by a field boundary running E-W. Monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) enclosed by a low broad bank which is almost completely levelled. There is a shallow fosse from SSE-S-SSW. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. Levelled monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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