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In gently undulating coastal grassland, immediately NE of Easkey village. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 500m to NE. A fragmentary field system extends over an area of c. 300m N–S by c. 400m E-W, across three adjacent modern…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL011-143003
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- Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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