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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of an enclosure on the 1914 ed. Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 15m N-S; 11.5m E-W) which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) S-W-N but the perimeter is cut by a quarry scarp (H 2m) at E. Cashel (RO004-047----) is c. 190m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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