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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rath Upper

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on NE facing slope of a slight rise in grassland, with good views from NW-N. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair plan map as a D-shaped enclosure and annotated on map as ‘fort’. Remains consist of a large sub-triangular shaped area (approx. dims. 48m NW-SE; 51m NE-SW) enclosed by a curving earthen bank from WSW-N-E, and by two straight field fences which form the straight sides of the site from NE-S and from S-W. The interior slopes slightly from W-E. The site was originally a circular shaped monument and there are visible indications of the cropmark of the levelled enclosing element on Digital Globe aerial photograph.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM016-030

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  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Photographer not named for this aerial, www.westmeathindependent.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
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