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Fairy fort or ringfort in Tober

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Annotated as ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure or ringfort. Ringfort (WM007-066---) 250m to NE. Unable tin inspect monument as it was located inside a tree plantation. The outline of the monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM007-067

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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