Enclosure in Dromline, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on a N-facing slope with excellent views W-N-E. Sub-circular area (dims. c. 28m N-S; c. 30m E-W) completely overgrown and inaccessible, except for small area on E and S side. Sharp drop evident on E and S sides, indicating the monument is a depression, possibly a disused quarry. Southern arc of site truncated by field boundary (long-axis E-W). A field boundary (long-axis N-S) radiates from the enclosure at N and an ESB pylon is located to NNE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS067-042

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