What is recorded here

Fairy fort / ringfort in Garraree is a fairy fort or ringfort in Garraree, County Westmeath, Ireland. Situated on the lower south-facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland, the site lies ninety metres to the southwest of a nearby ringfort. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map depicts the location as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a fort. A 1970 description recorded the levelled site as visible only as a scarp with an approximate diameter of thirty-nine metres running northwest to southeast and forty-seven metres running northeast to southwest, while a field fence ran across the northeast quadrant.

Situated on the lower S facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland. Ringfort (WM012-137---) 90m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. Levelled site now only visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Described in 1970 as a levelled site visible only as a scarp (approx. diam. 39m NW-SE; 47m NE-SW) sloping gradually to S. A field fence running NW-SE ran across the NE quadrant of the site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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