Enclosure in Minard, County Longford

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What is recorded here

On low-lying ground at the foot of a rise. Depicted as a roughly subrectangular enclosure on the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A NE-SW field boundary clipped it at NW. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF008-033

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Maker not stated on source page, field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org
Maker not stated on source page, www.gaia.com
Maker not stated on source page, nigelborrington.com
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Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Thomas Flinkow / Sportsfile, published by GAA, www.gaa.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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