What is recorded here
In rough pasture, broken by seams of karst outcropping. Immediately to N, the ground shelves down into an E–W stream valley, overlooked on the N side by a high ridge. There are ruined vernacular farm buildings in the adjoining field to W. This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG103-075
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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