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Enclosure in Booly

Enclosure

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Indicated as an irregularly shaped enclosure (max. dims. c. 54m) on the 1st (1839) ed. and as roughly pentagonal on the 1947 revision, with a field boundary running NE-SW along the edge of the NW sector, a field boundary running NE from the NE sector and another running roughly ENE from the SE sector. Only the NW-N-NE perimeter of the monument is retained in a field boundary, the remainder of the enclosure E-S-W has been levelled. The fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021) KK023-065----_01 satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2021
Indicated as an irregularly shaped enclosure (max. dims. c. 54m) on the 1st (1839) ed. and as roughly pentagonal on the 1947 revision, with a field boundary running NE-SW along the edge of the NW sector, a field boundary running NE from the NE sector and another running roughly ENE from the SE sector. Only the NW-N-NE perimeter of the monument is retained in a field boundary, the remainder of the enclosure E-S-W…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-064

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  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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