Enclosure in Ballintober, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture immediately W of a stream. Holy well (LI057-001----) lies 250m to SE. Not depicted as an antiquity but shown as an irregular-shaped field on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 65m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from SW-N-E-S enclosed by a stream from N-E-S. Outline of overgrown monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI048-067

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