Linear earthwork in Kilcullane, County Limerick

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On top of a narrow ridge running NW-SE, in rough, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 265m to ENE. A townland boundary with Ragamus lies 35m to WSW. A group of three contiguous barrows (LI032-232001-/03-/04-) are on the spine of the ridge, to the immediate E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 218.02: AP 5/2014) as a long, linear-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a linear-shaped earthwork (approx. L 90m; Wth 8m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 218.02 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI032-232002

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