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Enclosure in Castlefarm, County Limerick (LI032-145----)

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LI032-145----
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Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'This is a circular earthen platform which does not seem to have a fosse. There is no bank on the platform or around it. Its maximum height is 6' [1.8m] and its overall diameter is 100' [30m]. it is situated in poor, wet low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 179). The outline of the monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI032-145

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