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Enclosure in Ballycocksoost

Enclosure
Enclosure in Ballycocksoost
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In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) separately by Jean-Charles Caillère, Simon Dowling and Edward O'Riordan. There are traces of an outer fosse, at a distance of c. 7m and concentric with the W-N-NE sectors of the enclosure, which is not as wide or deep as the inner fosse. See attached photograph: CW009-046----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 December 2019
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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