Earthwork in Kilgarriff, County Limerick (LI057-031----)

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What is recorded here

In pasture 350m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ahnaguarra and 375m NW of the Ahnagurra Stream. Enclosure (LI057-030----) lies 160m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area planted with trees. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) defined a field boundary. Intersected at NW and SE by field boundaries running N-S. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-031

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Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
Neil Theasby, commons.wikimedia.org
Colin Park, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Neil Theasby, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Glenroe Hurling Club official website; individual aerial photographer not named, glenroegaa.com

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