What is recorded here
In pasture, atop limestone hillock. Site depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly rectangular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) against field boundary. Site has been levelled; no visible surface trace evident. According to landowner, enclosure levelled c. 1993 during land reclamation. Westropp (1916-17, 30) described it as 'like a barrel' in plan; it was '120 feet north and south, and from 54 to 90 feet across, a few feet high', and enclosed by 'a stone wall 9 feet thick, now nearly removed'.
In pasture, atop limestone hillock. Site depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly rectangular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) against field boundary. Site has been levelled; no visible surface trace evident. According to landowner, enclosure levelled c. 1993 during land reclamation. Westropp (1916-17, 30) described it as 'like a barrel' in plan; it was '120 feet north and south, and from 54 to 90 feet…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI019-033
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- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Philip Halling, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Roger McLachlan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wikimedia Commons contributor · Public domain
- Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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