Enclosure in Mandistown, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. A circular feature (diam. c. 30-40m) that might be defined by a fosse is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 674, 675), but its nature is unclear and it has not appeared on other images.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME006-029

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