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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lowerwood

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

Situated on a rise (221ft/67m OD), in pasture. A public road lies c. 10m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork. Shown on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped enclosure. Monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM036-029

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What survives
Recorded monument

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0

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