Enclosure in Barrettstown, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

On flat ground with stream running along W and SW sectors of enclosure, in area of scrubby woodland. Stream has been canalised to form a deep channel. Enclosure has been quarried into and is in a much denuded condition with a lot of scrub in the interior. Rectangular enclosure (diam. c. 31m NE-SW; c. 42m NW-SE) defined by a bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.83m; ext. H 1.1m); fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.7m) in NE-SE sectors, otherwise defined by scarp (H 0.57m), though the NW side and SE side have been quarried into removing the edge of the enclosure as well as much of the interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS070-038

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