Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kinnegad (WM027-070----)

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What is recorded here

On a low natural rise of ground or small hillock located 200m N of the Kinnegad River. A roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 28m WSW-ENE; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a poorly preserved low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2m) only visible from W-N, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with faint traces of a shallow external fosse (top Wth 5.4m) only visible at S and NW. No entrance feature visible. Monument is not visible on 2005 OSI aerial photograph (www.osi.ie).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM027-070

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