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Enclosure in Castlefarm

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Enclosure in Castlefarm
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In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, abutting a townland boundary with Oldtown to NW. One of a complex of five monuments aligned roughly NE-SW along the townland boundary, over an approximate distance of 165m and consisting of a standing stone (LI032-160001-), three ring-barrows (LI032-160002-/03-/04-) and an enclosure (LI032-160005-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 276: AP 5/2047). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image (southern most monument). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 November 2020
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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