What is recorded here

Enclosure in Dunmore East is a vanished sub-square boundary on a gentle south-facing slope, mapped in 1946 but levelled by 1987. It likely marked a working area near the adjacent quarry and lime-kilns, where heat, dust and heavy carts transformed local stone into building material. The grassland may have swallowed the place because it stopped being useful, yet the aerial shadow still preserves its shape.

On a gentle S-facing slope in undulating grassland E of the Nore and Dinin rivers and S of the Castlecomer Plateau. There are fair views in all directions. Indicated on the 1946-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a sub-square enclosure (dims. c. 57m NE-SW) with roughly straight sides and rounded corners and an outer fosse from NW-N-NNE. A quarry with lime-kilns is indicated adjacent to the NW sector of the enclosure. When visited in 1987 the monument had been levelled and was not visible at ground level. It is visible as cropmark on an aerial photograph (GB89.V.03, 13 July 1989) and on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 13 August 2015). See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 13 August 2015) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 June 2020

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