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Situated on a low hill, in pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a D-shaped tree-planted enclosure with straight side to SW. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as the arc of a scarp (approx. C 40m) present from SE-S-W. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Faint outline of levelled ringfort visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM035-002

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