What is recorded here
Marked as a subcircular enclosure (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated at the bottom of the E-facing slope of Bree Hill with the source of a small N-S stream c. 150m to the E. This is a raised and grass-covered rectangular area (dims. 31m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarps at E (Wth 4m; H 0.6m) and S (Wth 6.5m; H 1m), an infilled moat (Wth 12m; D 0.3m) at N and a moat (Wth 3m) connected with field drainage and a field bank at W. Moated site (WX025-033----) is c. 120m to the S.
Marked as a subcircular enclosure (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated at the bottom of the E-facing slope of Bree Hill with the source of a small N-S stream c. 150m to the E. This is a raised and grass-covered rectangular area (dims. 31m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarps at E (Wth 4m; H 0.6m) and S (Wth 6.5m; H 1m), an infilled moat (Wth 12m; D 0.3m) at N and a…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX025-032
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- George Cruikshank, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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