Enclosure in Coolaculla, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

Situated on a natural rise of ground in a nineteenth-century forest plantation in undulating countryside. A poorly preserved site consisting of a circular area (diam. 19.5m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp. No entrance feature visible. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN036-035

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