What is recorded here
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a wide col or low E-W ridge (L c. 1km E-W) between Ask Hill and Tara Hill, the summits of which are c. 900m and 1km to the W and E respectively. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by a slight scarp, with slight remains of a fosse (Wth of top 10m) SE–NW. It is visible as a vegetation mark of a wide fosse feature on aerial photographs (MM (53) 31-33).
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a wide col or low E-W ridge (L c. 1km E-W) between Ask Hill and Tara Hill, the summits of which are c. 900m and 1km to the W and E respectively. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by a slight scarp, with slight remains of a fosse (Wth of top 10m) SE–NW. It is visible as a…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX007-008
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 au
- Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ryanforsyth9, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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