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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Piercetown (rathconrath By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on top of a high prominent hill in grassland, with excellent views in all directions. Ringfort (WM017-117---) 200m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small roughly circular shaped enclosure with some trees on the perimeter, annotated as a ‘fort’. This poorly preserved site has been partially levelled and has been much degraded. All that remains is a sub-circular shaped rise of ground defined by a scarp (approx. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by slight traces of an external fosse. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments, Iris Oifigiúil, 11 February 1975. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2018

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