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Fairy fort or ringfort in Clonkill

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The monument is not depicted on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map where only the curving field bank at S indicates the location of the levelled monument. The curving field boundary visible from S-W follows line of enclosing bank of ringfort which has been levelled elsewhere and is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-159

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Photo credits
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Picture: Ireland In Ruins
  • Oliver Dixon, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Brian Shaw, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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