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In pasture, 95m W of the River Maigue, immediately S of the townland boundary with Lackanagrour. Enclosure (LI039-003----) lies 400m to WNW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 34m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp, intersected at W by a lane or trackway running N-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse, standing in the NW corner of a field on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI039-005

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
  • Dromin Athlacca Banogue club; individual photographer not named, drominathlaccabanogue.clubzap.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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