Enclosure in Ballintlea Upper, County Laois

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

A roughly oval enclosure (max. dim. c. 70m NNW-SSE) marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface remains.

Photo credits

Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons
liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, es.findagrave.com
Laois Today; individual photographer not named on source page (article by Jamie Dowling), www.laoistoday.ie

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