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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinphort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated at the base of NE facing slope of high hill in pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-078----) 105m to SSE. Ringfort (WM007-079---) 195m SSE. This has been almost completely levelled. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as ‘fort’, and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch maps as a circular-shaped enclosure. This is a sub-circular area (approx. dims 19m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank (H 0.35m) and a very slight external fosse (Wth 7m). The interior slopes from SW-NE. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 April 2017

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