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Enclosure in Bishopslough Newtown

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Overgrown with trees and scrub. Indicated as a sub-square enclosure (dims. c. 45m NW-SE; c. 41m NE-SW) planted with trees on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1899-1902 revision of this map.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK024-039

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