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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballymacmorris

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a low rise, in pasture, with good views to S and W. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1983 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 34m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The earth and stone bank is wide and low and is best preserved from W-N-E. The interior has a S-facing slope. Monument is visible today as a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

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