Enclosure in Ballylanders, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture 10m N of a local road and c. 130m N of Ballylanders village. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 28m). Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a bank curving from E to SSW. No surface remains visible of levelled enclosure 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 LI049-210

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