Earthwork in Ruppulagh, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture 190m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballintober. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped hollow (diam. c. 10m) enclosed by field boundary walls from SE-W-NE. Visible as a circular-shaped area overgrown with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. May be the remains of a post-1700 quarry. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-022

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Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Colin Park, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Glenroe Hurling Club official website; individual aerial photographer not named, glenroegaa.com
john salter, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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