Linear earthwork in Anglesborough, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture 185m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Lackendarragh. Fulacht fia (LI057-042----) lies 85m to the NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; No. 2623; 057070) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Possible linear earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. See attached BGE orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-041

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Get Lost Mountaineering; photographer not stated, Get Lost Mountaineering
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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Knockane GAA Club website; individual photographer not stated, www.knockane.com
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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