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Dimensions 14m N-S and 14m E-W A D-shaped area abuts, on the S side, the top of a cliff-edge. A modern field boundary now runs along this cliff. The rest of the area is enclosed by a very collapsed stone wall .3m in height. The interior is flat but raised slightly above the surrounding land. The site is located at the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG044-023
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- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.sapiens.org
- Chris Gunns, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Percita at Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Chris Gunns, Wikimedia Commons
- Maker not stated on source page, br.pinterest.com
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