What is recorded here
In wet pasture 60m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Newtown. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform 10m N of farm track running E-W and 80m NW of a spring. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. 16m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by a scarp…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI033-042
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Antony Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, evoke.ie
- EamonnPKeane, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Maker not stated on source page, in.pinterest.com
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