Enclosure in Conigar, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly rectangular depressed area (26.2m N-S; 23.6m E-W) defined by inner scarp edge (H 0.26m) ENE->SW and by dry-stone field boundary SW->ENE. Interior, covered with thistles and nettles, slopes down to the ENE. Disused quarry adjacent to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI019-168

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