Earthwork in Fort West, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet pasture 310m N of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Cloonmore. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular enclosure from oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (370) 33). Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) surrounded by marshy ground on Google Earth orthoimage taken on 01/04/2021. See attached ASIAP oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI046-030

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