Quarry in Leckaun, County Clare

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What is recorded here

Listed as ‘Enclosure, possible’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as it was hachured on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. However, it is hachured on the OS 25-inch map and named ‘Quarry (disused)’. This was confirmed on inspection in 2000.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL033-002

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