What is recorded here
The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'W of the village of Killmallock, circular multiple enclosure surrounding the summit of isolated hill overlooking the Loobagh River 200m to the S. The site has a total footprint of approximately 2.8ha. Bivallate for most…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI047-092
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- No machine-readable author provided. Christian1965~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- CaitNi, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Unknown author Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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