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Ecclesiastical enclosure in Leny

Ecclesiastical enclosure

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Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 9) who recorded that there was evidence of a circular enclosure to SW of Leny graveyard (WM011-028001-). Traces of possible enclosure visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph (http://binged.it/1LUYs2t) to SW and W of graveyard. See attached aerial photograph taken from Bing Maps at http://binged.it/1LUYs2t Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2015

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM011-028002

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Peter Gavigan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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