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Entrenchment

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Surrounding Ballindoon Dominican priory (SL034-211001-) and graveyard (SL034-21102-). Described by Wood-Martin (1882, 227-8) as a 'formidable intrenchment' which surrounded the priory and graveyard on the NE side, stopping at the steep-sided lakeshore. It is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a curved hachured…

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Surrounding Ballindoon Dominican priory (SL034-211001-) and graveyard (SL034-21102-). Described by Wood-Martin (1882, 227-8) as a 'formidable intrenchment' which surrounded the priory and graveyard on the NE side, stopping at the steep-sided lakeshore. It is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a curved hachured scarp N-E and as a hachured bank E-SSE with a short extension to the E. None of these features are evident in a field of reclaimed grassland which surrounds the graveyard. However, a denuded linear earthen bank (L 32m; H 1.35m) (SL034-211005-) was noted parallel to, and c. 32m from, the NW wall of the graveyard. The area between this bank and the graveyard is gently undulating and slopes gradually down to the W. In a wooded area c. 80m SE of the priory is a holy well (SL034-211006-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-211004

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  • SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Eastern Harps GAA Club; individual photographer not named, www.easternharps.com
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  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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