Enclosure in Coole, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located at the base of a gently rounded hillock (H c. 3m) on the floor of a N-S valley with a canalised N-S stream c. 80m to the E and a disused N-S rail line immediately to the E. It is not marked on any OS map but it is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 669, 670). This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 61.5m N-S; 51m E-W) defined by a fosse (at SE: Wth of top 5m; ext. D 0.3m), with a counterscarp bank (at SE: Wth of base 4m; ext. H0.2m) NW-E-SW. An entrance is not identified.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME005-044

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