Enclosure in Ballybrood, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 189: AP 4/3687) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as an 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 45m N-S x 30m E-W, with possibel internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI023-187

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