Enclosure in Clorhane, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

On SE-facing slope in deciduous woodland. Lawn of Clorane House adjoins to E. Roughly rectangular area (38m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank SE->N and by scarped edge (H 1.25m) N->SE. Bank (H 1.27m) best preserved SW->NNW. Interior, planted with mature deciduous trees, slopes down to the SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI012-132

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