Enclosure in Windtown, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). A NE-SW field bank is just to the NW, and another field bank extends NW from it just at the enclosure but a field bank extending SE, which would have bisected the enclosure was never constructed. Nevertheless, it could be a tree-ring as Windtown House is c. 250m to the SW. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME037-056

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