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Enclosure in Cronavan

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In pasture on SE-facing slope. Sub-rectangular area (101.7m N-S; 91.9m E-W) defined by stone-faced earthen bank NE->SE and S->N; low visible traces of levelled bank elsewhere. Interior level; earthen banks running into interior (38.7m NE-SW; 53.6m NW-SE), partially stone-faced at W side, enclose E quadrant. Power (1918, 171) records bi-vallate ringfort here with levelled outer bank (4ft).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO053-027

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  • Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Revd. Matthew Morgan, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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