Enclosure in Monabrogue, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In upland terrain, on a terrace of a gentle NE-facing slope along the S side of the Nuenna river valley. In pasture with forestry immediately to the W. Identified on GSI aerial photograph (S 453, 1:30,000) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) and visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 18 March 2020).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK013-040

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