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Concentric enclosure in Killabeg

Concentric enclosure

What is recorded here

Situated on a SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 32m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a fosse SW-N-SE is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018) but its line SE-SW abuts a broad curve in an E-W stream. There is an outer enclosure (dim. c. 65m E-W) defined an outer fosse placed c. 10m outside the inner that is visible W-N-E and the fosses are connected by three channels. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth: Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 March 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX020-124

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Darrin Antrobus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • MikeWest Wexford, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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