Ecclesiastical enclosure in Askinvillar Upper

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What is recorded here

Located on a gentle E-facing slope at the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. This is an early ecclesiastical site, although the saint is not known. The graveyard (WX018-001002-) is marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a church building (WX018-001001-) inside it. Traces of a circular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 70m) are visible as a band of subsoil on the surface when the field is ploughed. The site of St. Doran's Well (WX018-001003-) is just outside the enclosure at NNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-001007

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