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Embanked enclosure in Rathduff

Moated site
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Marked as a rectangular moated or embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a slight fold in a S-facing slope with the headwaters of a N-S stream c. 150m to the E. Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. It is listed as a moated site (Barry 1977, 226, WX 104).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-010

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Rathnure St Anne’s GAA Club; individual photographer not named, rathnuregaa.ie
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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