Enclosure in Ballycabus, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (dims. c. 55m NW-SE; c. 51m NE-SW) tightly enclosed by field boundaries. On the 1900 revision on the field is indicated. On an aerial photograph (ASIAP (15) 36) taken in 1995 the enclosure is visible as a cropmark, in tillage. An upstanding field boundary runs ESE-WNW through the centre of the enclosure. See attached: KK025-005----_01 (ASIAP (15) 36) taken in 1995 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 February 2022

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK025-005

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