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Enclosure in Lorrha

Enclosure

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Situated on the slight E-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. A circular area (diam c. 60m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.7m) which only survives from N through E to S in the form of a field boundary - elsewhere it is reduced to a low scarp. No trace of a fosse or entrance feature. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN004-017

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  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
  • Jason Keane, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Derek Ryan Bawn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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