Enclosure in Fordrath, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of the Hill of Ward. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It is situated between woodland to the NW and SE and the perimeter is absent between SE and SSW and very slight at some other points. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME030-051

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Meath Chronicle (individual photographer not named), www.meathchronicle.ie
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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