What is recorded here
Internal diam. c. 15m. A subcircular area now enclosed by a modern wall apparently built on the line of a collapsed cashel wall parts of which can still be seen. The site is located on a height in fairly good land. An old roadway 2.35m wide bounded on each side by an earthen bank and fosse is evident just NNE of the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG098-016
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- Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Computer-made picture. It does not show this mountain top.
- EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- David Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- louise price, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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