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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ringstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. In poorly drained grassland with ringfort (WM012-020----) 360m to W. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m). Outline of levelled or degraded monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 August 2023

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM007-088

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jeanne dArc at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • fr:Gavigan:Knockdrin_a.jpg/Knockdrin_a.jpg, Wikimedia Commons · GFDL
  • Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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