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Fairy fort or ringfort in Skeahanagh

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial roughly circular-shaped enclosure intersected at S and W by field boundaries. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map but shown as a subcircular-shaped scrub-covered enclosure (dims. 38m N-S; 39m E-W). Outline of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM038-027

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dalenevada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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