Enclosure in Dicksborough, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 52m), defined from N-E-S by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The outline of the perimeter from S-W-N has been preserved in a curving field boundary. See attached imagery: KK019-149----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery date 10 August 2022 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 June 2023

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK019-149

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