Enclosure in Magowry, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

In improved pasture, on a NNE-facing slope. Remains of oval area (dims. 32m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by levelled scarp (Wth 1.9m; H 0.15m) S-W-ENE and the remains of a fosse (basal Wth 2.5m; overall Wth 4.9m; D 0.2m) truncated by a curvilinear field boundary and drain ENE-E-S. The remains of a levelled linear field boundary (Wth 2.5m) and a backfilled ditch running NE-SW are abutting to the NW. The interior slopes to the NNE. The enclosure is described by Cahill (1982) as being levelled.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS062-070

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