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Enclosure in Bree

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What is recorded here

Situated on a plateau between Bree Hill c. 1.1 km to the WSW, Carrig Hill c. 950m to the NNW and Ballybuckley hillfort (WX025-034----) c. 450m to the ENE. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (62) 15-19).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX025-050

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Bree Community Development Group photo gallery; photographer not named, www.bree.ie
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • David Purchase, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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