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Earthwork in Higginstown (farbill By.)

Earthwork

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Situated in low-lying pasture. Depicted on Longford Estate Map of 1767 as a circular-shaped earthwork. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Levelled earthwork is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. There is a linear cropmark running NE-SW close to SW of this earthwork that continues towards ringfort (WM020-081----) 265m to SW. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

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