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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Garryellen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'An earthen platform on the edge of which there was a bank. Outside this there was a fosse. The bank is very collapsed and the fosse is just barely visible. The entrance seems to have been on the west side where the fosse is causewayed. The overall diameter is 150' [m]. Situated in good low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Cropmark of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs, outline of monument clearly visible on earlier OSi aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

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