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Enclosure in Alderborough

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What is recorded here

No surface remains, now levelled. Landscape feature, artificial pond according to present owner. Depicted as a circular enclosure or as an antiquity on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. May have been an archaeological enclosure re-used as a landscape feature.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF026-001

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