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Enclosure

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Located NE of St. Abban's R.C. church. Aerial photograph (GB89.X.24) shows cropmark of an incomplete sub-circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA026-040

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