Enclosure in Mountminnett, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

On low-lying, improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 35m to E. Ring-barrow (LI023-275----) lies 220m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 155: AP 4/3663). Monument is clearly visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 32m) on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 and is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 155.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI023-220

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Maker not stated on source page, scotlands-stories.com
Maker not stated on source page, evoke.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.gettyimages.com
No machine-readable author provided. Christian1965~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Knockane GAA Club website; individual photographer not stated, www.knockane.com
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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