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Enclosure in Ballylarkin Upper

Enclosure

What is recorded here

On the S slopes overlooking the Nuenna river valley, ground sloping steeply to N immediately N of the monument, in poor, marginal land. It is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 33m NW-SE) partially truncated in the NE quadrant by a road which appears to kink around the enclosure. The enclosure was levelled in the 1960s but archaeological investigations in 2005 revealed the bank and fosse, as well as an internal structure (Ó Drisceoil 2008, 194-5 (794)).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK013-042

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  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andy Ryan / 1803 Productions, credited by Kilkenny GAA, kilkennygaa.ie
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