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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrowmore (ballynacourty Ed )

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a ridge, c. 150m to the N of Tyrone Bay. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and classified by McCaffrey (1952, 191, no. 15) as a very denuded ‘Earthen fort’ defined by a bank. Not visible at ground level but its outline is evident on the OSi ortho_2005 aerial photograph. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2017

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