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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockanea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a low rise, in pasture, with fairly good views to E and S and restricted views to W and N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a perfectly circular-shaped tree-ring and not as an antiquity. Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. Several field boundaries in the vicinity have been removed. This may have been a ringfort that was reused as a tree-ring. Levelled monument the cropmark of which is barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM029-038

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sgbrito at Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sheila1988, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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