What is recorded here
At the top of a long gentle E-facing pasture slope. A raised circular area (diam. 40m; H 1m) is defined by a low overgrown scarp SSE-W-NE and by a later field bank - possibly incorporating an earlier enclosing bank - NE-E-SSE.
At the top of a long gentle E-facing pasture slope. A raised circular area (diam. 40m; H 1m) is defined by a low overgrown scarp SSE-W-NE and by a later field bank - possibly incorporating an earlier enclosing bank - NE-E-SSE.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD031-016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- John Michael Wright, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Alex Passmore, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hello, I am Bruce on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mgtmquinn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andrewmc, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
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