Designed landscape feature in Mountkelly, County Carlow

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What is recorded here

Large oval shaped enclosure (c. 160m E-W, c. 60m N-S) defined by a very narrow fosse visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (51) 10-14). Appears to post date the field boundary marked on both the 1839 and the 1908 'OS 6-inch' maps.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW004-060

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