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Embanked enclosure — Laughil (boyle By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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Embanked enclosure — Laughil (boyle By.)
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A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

What is recorded here

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on level ground with rock-outcrop. It is not visible at ground level, and the site is now occupied by a farmhouse and yard. It may have been a cashel. Rath (RO007-078----) is c. 140m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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