Concentric enclosure in Dromeliagh, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Situated in undulating, poorly drained pasture with good views to N and E. A field boundary bisects the site in the WSW. The monument is evident as a roughly circular area (27m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 1.7-3.8m; H 0.4-0.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.8m). This is truncated at SW by a field boundary travelling NW-SE. Concentric with the fosse and c. 8m outside it is a low earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.1m). This bank is evident from S (where truncated by field boundary) clockwise to E. That area of the enclosure SW of the field boundary is partially covered by scrub overgrowth.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI014-015

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