What is recorded here
The curving line of earthworks to the W and SW of the ‘Caltragh’ forming a large outer enclosure possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 22).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM008-025
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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