Enclosure in Gaile, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

On top of rock outcrop on W face of Killough Hill which has commanding views to N and W, in pasture. Part of the enclosure has been disturbed by a quarry located immediately to the E. The monument consists of a poorly preserved circular area (int. diam 37m N-S; 34m E-W; overall diam. c. 43m E-W) enclosed by a low bank (base Wth. 5m; top Wth. 1.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp. The bank is only visible from SE through S to W, elsewhere the enclosure is defined by a scarp. There is a quarry located in the S quadrant of the enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS047-085

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Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Steven Brown, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Lár na Páirce Museum, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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