What is recorded here
In pasture in limestone terrain, on a terrace on a high ridge overlooking the E shore of Lough Arrow. To NE ground shelves up gradually; to SW it falls steeply for c. 400m in a series of rocky terraces, eventually levelling out at the lake shore. This enclosure is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-265
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- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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