Concentric enclosure in Aghanure, County Laois

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What is recorded here

A large curvilinear enclosure (dims. c. 63m N-S; c. 72m E-W) with an outer, roughly concentric enclosure (dims. c. 91m N-S; c. 87m E-W) visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The outer enclosure is roughly 8-10m outside the inner enclosure, however, in the NE quadrant this gap widens to c. 18m. See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 April 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA026-051

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