Designed landscape feature in Hilltown Great, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Depicted as a triangular feature on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a small circular copse on the 1908 edition. An enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature, probably a demesne feature and non-archaeological, is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (Bing 2013). (pers. comm. T. Condit).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME027-098

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