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Enclosure in Lipstown Upper

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In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a circular area (est. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a back-filled fosse. A modern field boundary overlies the enclosing fosse NE-E-SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-063

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