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Enclosure in Usna

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a hill within a golf course. Oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 48m NE-SW; c. 33m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (max. H 1.4m) NE-S and as a scarp down to the interior (H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO006-169----) is c. 200m to the W. Wedge tomb (RO006-171----) is c. 80m to the NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO006-172

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Photo credits
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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