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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Glebe (dundalk Upper By., Dundalk Par.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a slight NE-SW ridge in a low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature was recorded in a pasture field in July 2018 using a drone-mounted camera. It has an entrance gap at E. It is also visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). Rath (LH007-192----) is c. 80m to the WSW, and the burials (LH007-187----) were discovered between the two. See the attached image taken from the E, courtesy of Mathew Kelly Compiled by Michael Moore based on details provided by Mathew Kelly and Steve McGlade. Date of upload: 9 August, 2018

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