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Hilltop enclosure in Constablehill

Hilltop enclosure
Hilltop enclosure in Constablehill
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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 on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013 and 7 June 2013), identified and reported by Ivor Kenny. A field boundary runs roughly NNE-SSW through the eastern portion of the enclosure and the enclosure is less clear E of this field boundary. A bullaun stone (CW004-042----) is located c. 270m SE of the enclosure and there is a cist (CW009-012----) c. 540m to the SE. See attached imagery: CW004-071----_01 Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013 CW004-071----_02 Google Earth imagery, 7 June 2013 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 November 2022
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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