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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockdomny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly trapezoidal-shaped earthwork. A possible medieval ringwork (WM030-073----) lies c. 140m to SSW. Monument is visible today as a roughly D-shaped tree-lined enclosure (approx. diam. 43m N-S) which is defined by a linear field boundary running NW-SE along the W side, on Digital Globe aerial photography. E perimeter of monument is incorporated into a modern house plot. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019

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