What is recorded here
Situated in a low-lying, level landscape within Newtown Gore village. Depicted as a subcircular or D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with what is described as a 'Corn Kiln' at its SW edge on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as a large hachured D-shaped enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) backing onto a NNE-SSW road at W on the revised 1944 edition of the map, again with a 'Corn Kiln' at its W edge. It may have been a corn-drying kiln in a quarry associated with a corn mill that was c. 100m to the NNE. The location is now occupied by two houses. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
Situated in a low-lying, level landscape within Newtown Gore village. Depicted as a subcircular or D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with what is described as a 'Corn Kiln' at its SW edge on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as a large hachured D-shaped enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) backing onto a NNE-SSW road at W on the revised 1944 edition of the map, again with a 'Corn Kiln' at its W…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE026-015
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