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Earthwork in Petestown

Earthwork
Earthwork in Petestown
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The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). of OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH008-081

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, curiousireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Robert Ashby, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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