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Hilltop enclosure in Dernacoo

Hilltop enclosure

What is recorded here

Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. This feature is not marked as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, but is shown as a curving field bank SSE-W on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is also visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP: H 284) from the 1970s and the OSI series of aerial images (2005). This is a large area defined by an earthen bank with an outer fosse S-W (Chord c. 80m), but the perimeter elsewhere is not evident.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO003-024

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Vyacheslav Argenberg from Seattle, WA, USA, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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