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Enclosure in Loughrask

Enclosure

What is recorded here

In an unreclaimed island of scrub in an otherwise reclaimed area. A possible oval enclosure (diam. c. 53m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with an entrance at SE, overgrown with gorse and scrub visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). Noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL002-097

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Robert Bone, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Michael Dibb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • C Michael Hogan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • MarvinVells, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Mac McCarron, commons.wikimedia.org
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