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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Shanlis

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a gentle W-facing slope c. 100m E of a S-N section of the Corkey River, which forms the boundary with Co. Meath. The cropmark of an enclosure defined by two fosse features (int. diam. c. 25m; ext. diam. c. 50m) is visible on Google Earth images (2013) and also on Bing images (c. 2013). The monument is also partially visible on OSi images (1995, 2000), and was first identified by Tom Condit. It is also visible on Google Earth (29/06/2021). See the attached view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 May, 2017 Amended: 11 October 2021

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