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Enclosure in Mitchellstown

Enclosure

What is recorded here

Located on a rise in a fairly level landscape. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible as a cropmark on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). There is no visible entrance feature. A section of a NNE-SSW road (ME019-029002-) is visible as a cropmark c. 100m to the W. The features were first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH019-029001

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  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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