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Enclosure in Rock

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Situated on a rise in a gently undulating low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) defined by two slight fosses is visible on OSI aerial images (2000). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached enhance aerial view from OSI (2000) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH014-099

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  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, hsreplay.net
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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