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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Fanningstown (smallcounty By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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In level pasture on slight ENE-facing slope, 50m S of townland boundary with Friarstown North, ringfort (LI022-040----) 110m to N. ringfort (LI022-039----) 175m to WNW. No surface remains visible. Monument listed by O'Kelly (1943, 226) as a 'stone fort' and described as follows; 'This fort had two stone ramparts each constructed of two faces with a rubble and earth filling. The entrance was on the south side where there are two breaks in the banks opposite one another and there is a slight causeway across the fosse between the inner banks. Most of this fort has disappeared - almost all of the outer bank and much of the inner. The overall diameter if 150' [45m]. This is situate on top of a low hillock'. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a circular shaped area (approx. int. diam. 27m' ext. diam. 47m) enclosed by a bank. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Curve in field boundary visible on Digital Globe orthoimage possibly incorporated the enclosing element of the monument at SW. This field boundary has since been removed and is not visible on Google earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 29 July 2020

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