What is recorded here
Situated in the grounds of Woodland House located 200m to SW and 400m NNE of Lough Owel with good views of the surrounding countryside. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank (max. H 1.25m) and wide external fosse (max. D 1m). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-084
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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