Enclosure in Tulla, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet pasture 30m W of the Ahaphuca River that marks the townland boundary with Cullane South. Shown as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a bank from NW-NE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Monument is clearly visible as an oval-shaped area (dims. 26m NW-SE; 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank 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 LI057-051

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Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
john salter, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Valerie M Cahill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Glenroe Hurling Club official website; individual aerial photographer not named, glenroegaa.com
Maker not stated on source page, ianmiddleton.co.uk
Maker not stated on source page, ooquotes.com

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