Enclosure in Rahill, County Carlow

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What is recorded here

In tillage. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 105m N-S; c. 91m E-W) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side is not clearly visible, only the return from the NE angle southward (L c. 20m). A church (CW001-003001-) and graveyard (CW001-003002-) are located c. 35m to the E. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW001-004----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW001-004----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 February 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW001-004

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