Enclosure in Straboe, County Carlow

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What is recorded here

In tillage. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 30m E-W) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. A field boundary runs ESE-WNW through the S sector. There is a faint suggestion that the cropmark continues S of this field boundary for c. 15m. See attached: CW003-039----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW003-039----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 February 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW003-039

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