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Fairy fort / ringfort in Parsonstown

Fairy fort / ringfort
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Situated on SE facing slope of a large ridge, with good views to the W. Ringfort (WM012-140---)140m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval shaped earthwork annotated as ‘fort’. This site has been levelled, with only a low scarp now visible at SSW. Barely visible cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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