Enclosure in Ballygillin, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a low rise in grassland. A circular shaped enclosure is depicted at this location on an estate map of 1833 (NLI 21F 80 (28)). No surface remains visible of any monument at location marked on OS 6-inch map. Faint circular crop mark visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM013-095

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