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Concentric enclosure in Killahy (crannagh By.)

Concentric enclosure
Concentric enclosure in Killahy (crannagh By.)
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On a gently sloping bluff in a valley, in reclaimed grassland. There are very fine views in all directions. Monument identified on an aerial photograph (GSI 1:30,000). The enclosure was not visible at ground level when visited in 1987. However, it is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 8 March 2010 and 28 June 2018). It consists of an internal roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 31m N-S; c. 28m E-W) visible as the cropmark of a fosse, a gap of c. 16m and an outer enclosure (diam. c. 60m) visible as a low bank. See attached: KK013-063----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 8 March 2010) KK013-063----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 28 June 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 March 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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