Enclosure in Snugborough, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In reclaimed pasture, 65m W of townland boundary with Castlecreagh and Glenefy House, an enclosure (LI049-079----) lies 160m to the W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped area defined by a berm reused as a field boundry at S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. 25m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scarp, truncated from SE-S by a post-1700 field boundary and drainage channel running NE-SW. Monument visible as a tree lined circular-shaped area, intersected at the S by field boundary running NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI049-080

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