Enclosure in Ballyfeerode, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Reported by Tom Fox, Teagasc, and inspected on 15th April 2011. Consists of curving bank (c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W), with very low profile though clearly evident, on east side of a field boundary that is also a townland boundary; no evident trace of enclosure on west side of boundary. The enclosure is crossed by an east-west field boundary in its northern third. The area is under pasture. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-075

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Glenroe Hurling Club official website; individual aerial photographer not named, glenroegaa.com
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john salter, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Valerie M Cahill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, ianmiddleton.co.uk
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