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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Sheefin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on S facing slope of a high ridge in hilly grassland, with good views to the SE and SW. Ringfort (WM012-133---) 70m to ESE. This site has been almost completely levelled and is now only visible as a faint crop mark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped earthwork annotated as a ‘fort’. Described in 1970 as consisting of a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m NW-SE; 30.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a very poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NNW-N-E. The slight external fosse is only visible from S-NW. A field fence curves along the perimeter of the site from N-E. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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