What is recorded here
On the N-facing slope of Skool Hill, in pasture, with good views from W-N-E and restricted elsewhere. The townland boundary with Loughanstown lies 130m to N. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large oval-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 9003: AP4/3697). Monument is visible as a substantial rectangular-shaped cropmark (72m E-W; 47m N-S) with a rectangular-shaped enclosure (66m N-S; 47m E-W) adjoining to E, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 01/10/2015.
See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 August 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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