Enclosure in Ballybreen, County Clare (CL016-001----)

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What is recorded here

Situated in undulating fertile land, once part of an estate. A D-shaped enclosure (13m N-S) with a straight S side (L 26.25m) defined by a drystone field wall similar to adjacent boundaries. There is no indication that the feature was originally circular. The interior contains outcropping limestone and is otherwise featureless.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL016-001

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Neil Theasby, commons.wikimedia.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.ireland.com
N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bob Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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