Earthwork in Garroose, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet pasture 320m E of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Garrane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a large oval-shaped area (dims. c. 60m N-S; 80m E-W) defined by a scarp with external waterfilled ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain antiquity. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI047-094

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