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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockdomny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and and depicted as a D-shaped enclosure with the straight side to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork modified by linear field boundaries to S and W. M Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible today as a faint semicircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Situated in gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and and depicted as a D-shaped enclosure with the straight side to SW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork modified by linear field boundaries to S and W. M Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible today as a faint semicircular-shaped…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM030-097

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