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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockstown (deece Lower By., Trubley Par.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at E is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). This is visible as a scrub-covered feature on photographs of the Geological Survey of Ireland from the 1970s (GSIAP: N 392, 393), and is visible as a cropmark on OSI images (2005; 2012). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached view from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019

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