What is recorded here
Situated immediately NE of an overgrown trackway, in flat meadowland. The monument is heavily masked by dense scrub vegetation. A rectangular area (L 19m N-S by Wth 7.8m E-W) is enclosed by a dilapidated field wall. The ground is raised (D 0.3m) with rubble and cut by a recent channel, except to the SW where a smaller…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI013-018
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4570282.jpg/250px-Castles_of_Munster,_Rathurd,_Limerick_(3)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4570282.jpg "Photo: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
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