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Fairy fort / ringfort in Modranstown

Fairy fort / ringfort
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Situated on a low rise, at the W end of an irregular ridge (long-axis E-W), in pasture with extensive views in all directions. Not depicted on any OS historic mapping. In 1980 an ASI field report noted a small stretch of very low scarp at the NE edge of the natural rise and suggested that it could potentially define the perimeter of an earthwork. The fieldworker through that it was indefinite and could also be the remains of a residual feature of the cultivation ridges. However the outline of a circular shaped enclosure is visible on Digital Globe photography as a light-green circular cropmark (approx. diam. 54m) enclosing a dark area of rough pasture within the interior. Old cultivation ridges running ENE-WSW are also seen respecting the cropmark of the enclosure suggesting that it was extant before the ridges were formed. A public road running NE-SW truncates the NW sector of the monument. A souterrain (WM017-039----) is located in the W quadrant of this enclosure. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 December 2018

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