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Embanked enclosure in Mount Talbot

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope c. 450m from the River Suck to the NW and SW and planted with deciduous trees within the demesne of Mount Talbot. Oval mound (dims. 19.5m E-W; 14m N-S; H 3.2-3.6m) with an oval summit (dims. 4.5m E-W; 1.5m N-S).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO044-005

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  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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