Enclosure in Odder, County Meath

What is recorded here

Located on the steep W-facing slope of the N-S Tara ridge, and c.600m SW of the Rath na Ríogh enclosure (ME031-033005-). The cropmark of a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 80m) was detected on a Google Earth image in 2012 by Aidan O’Sullivan of the Dept. of Archaeology, UCD. It consists of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse, a bank, and an outer fosse features. It is possibly the remains of a ploughed out barrow of stepped type. (Monaghan 2012).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME037-043

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Verdasuno at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0