Enclosure in Ballygulleen, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In level wet pasture. Oval area (36m N-S; 46m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.85m), with an external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 1.6m) WNW->NE. Watercourse runs along line of fosse NE->WNW. Interior covered by mature oaks and sycamores.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI045-002

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