What is recorded here
In pasture, on S-facing hill slope in area of outcropping limestone. D-shaped area (48m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1), with vertical inner face and sod-covered sloping outer face SE->NNE, and by linear dry-stone field wall on NE side. Cattle trough inserted into inner wall face at N; interior used as paddock. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Access to interior via gate in field wall. See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
In pasture, on S-facing hill slope in area of outcropping limestone. D-shaped area (48m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1), with vertical inner face and sod-covered sloping outer face SE->NNE, and by linear dry-stone field wall on NE side. Cattle trough inserted into inner wall face at N; interior used as paddock. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Access to interior via gate…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI020-040
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- Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. View image on Flickr View all images from book View catalogue entry for book ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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