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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Archerstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a prominent hillock in gently undulating grass-land with excellent views from NW-N-E-SSE. Archerstown church (WM008-045----) and graveyard (WM008-045001-) located 390m to N. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 41m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The interior of the ringfort is uneven and contains a number of depressions & low banks. There appears to be the remains of an outer bank visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

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