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Partially hachured

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope, with good views across the River Shannon estuary to N and the surrounding landscape from N-E-S. Enclosure (LI004-024----) is c. 155m to NE. Recorded as an enclosure by Westropp (1907, 381). Depicted on the revised 1924 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. 38m E-W; 32m N-S). Visible as a tree-lined monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020

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