What is recorded here
On a slight S-facing slope at the edge of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions, except upslope to N. In a field called 'Castle Meadows'. These earthworks (KK010-116001-) were identified (ASI fieldwork 4 August 1987) 80m to the SE of others earthworks associated with a castle (KK010-116----). They appear to be connected by a trackway.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK010-116001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jan-Philipp Litza, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- User Postdlf on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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