Enclosure in Clogh Lower, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 45m). Price (1949, 131) states that the field in which it had stood was known as the reiligin, indicating the presence of a burial ground.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI027-060

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