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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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Marked as a circular 'Rath' on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare and shown on the 1st ed. (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly square, enclosed copse (est. dims. c. 40m x c. 40m). On level rough grazing. No visible surface trace of the monument survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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