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Knockshee Moat

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On the S leading edge of an E-W pasture terrace. A poorly preserved, lightly overgrown, and now oval-shaped mound (base diams. 26m N-S; 17m E-W; summit diams. 10.9m N-S; 1.2m E-W: H 2.4m at W-3.6m at E) which has been quarried away N-E-S. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 September 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD029-025

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  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
  • Maker not stated on source page, curiousireland.ie
  • JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • R. A., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.boboandchichi.com
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