Enclosure in Cloona, County Clare

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What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Indicated as a circular enclosure on the 1920 OS 6-inch map and noted as a circular feature on a high-altitude GSI photograph (SMR file). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 only the curving field boundary E-SW was still visible (chord 26m) and much field spoil had been placed against it.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL025-112

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Picture notes

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Odea at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
Bob Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Adrian King, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Muimhneach, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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