Doon fort, moated site in County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

In improved pasture, on E-side of a broad ridge. Monument is depicted as a sub-rectangular enclosure on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and as an oval enclosure (map dims. 25m N-S; 33m E-W) on the 2nd (1906) ed. The enclosure appears to have been levelled, but the structure (TS060-082001-) depicted in the NW quadrant on the 2nd ed. is visible as a roughly square raised area.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS060-082

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