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Enclosure in Effelstown

Enclosure

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Situated in level field immediately W of railway. Northern field boundary, well established hedge line is a townland boundary. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 578/7) shows a circular cropmark of a levelled enclosure (diam c. 35m). Not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU008-011

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Photo credits
  • Nigel Thompson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, readymap.irish
  • FrankFlanagan, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • jwd, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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