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Partially indicated — Monkstown

Fairy fort / ringfort
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Partially indicated — Monkstown
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Situated on a low ridge in undulating grassland with good views all around. Ringfort (WM012-157---) 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’ with a gravel pit immediately to SW and limekiln to N. Poorly preserved monument consisting of a curve in the field fence from SW-W-NW which preserves the enclosing bank of the levelled ringfort. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 March 2018

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