Enclosure in Killea, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In level, rough pasture. Enclosing element of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 36m) is overlain/replaced by collapsed stone-faced earthen filed boundary now covered by dense overgrowth, except NW-N where enclosure defined by scarped edge (Wth 6m; H 0.8m) with barely perceptible external fosse (Wth c. 2.6m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI029-142

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