Enclosure LI024-135---- in Ballyluddy

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What is recorded here

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in reclaimed pasture. A standing stone (LI024-296----) lies approximately on the E edge of the monument. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 98: AP 4/3677) as a substantial D-shaped cropmark, defined to W by a linear field boundary. Monument is visible as a faint suboval-shaped dark green cropmark (approx. dims. 57m N-S; 49m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 98.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI024-135

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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