Enclosure in Ballyquirk, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In level pasture. Roughly D-shaped area defined by arc of earthen bank (C 42m; H c. 0.35m; Wth 5.5m) NNW-SE, and defined by stream along S edge (L 62m) and by field boundary and stream along W edge (L 58m). Faint trace of external fosse at NW and E (Wth 12m; D 0.45m). Interior slopes down gently towards stream to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI036-203

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