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On the summit of Constable Hill, under pasture. A trigonometric station showing a height of 760ft above sea level is indicated on the 1st and revised ed. of the 6-inch OS map within the area of the enclosure, though the enclosure itself is not indicated. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 56m), defined by a fosse…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW004-071
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- Smith Groundworks (project publisher); individual photographer not named, smithgroundworksandcivilengineering.ie
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Jonathan Billinger, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- David Purchase, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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