Enclosure in Dromacummer West, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture immediately N of the River Maigue. Transected at W by a field boundary which marks the townland boundary with Cappanafaraha. Partial cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 33m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and on earlier OSi othoimages. Partial cropmark forming roughly a D-shaped area (approx. dims. 46m N-S x 42m E-W) running onto the River Maigue is clearly visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI039-199

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