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Partially hachured

Fairy fort / ringfort
Partially hachured
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Situated on a slight rise on the NW face of a prominent hill with extensive views from NW-N-NE. The road which marks the townland boundary with Wattstown is 10m to W and the townland boundary with Ballyedward is 50m to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as a ‘fort’ (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 30m E-W). No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 August 2017
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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