Enclosure in Dooradoyle, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Located in a field of rough pasture, immediately N of the N20 road. The site was identified on aerial photographs during preliminary archaeological work on the N20 link road (OS 2, 2937) as one or possibly two circular crop marks indicating levelled enclosures. There was no evident trace of the enclosures on the ground when the site was inspected.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI013-121

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