Outlined WM010-025---- in Paddinstown Lower

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What is recorded here

Situated on rushy grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. An uneven sub-circular shaped raised area (approx. diam. 26m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp revetted with dry stone walling. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running N-S across the interior of the monument. An oval shaped depression in the NW quadrant may be the remains of a house site (WM010-025001-). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM010-025

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