What is recorded here
Situated in a circular-shaped coppice of deciduous trees, now replaced by a young coniferous plantation. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a partially levelled earthwork on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1982 as a high roughly oval-shaped…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM038-026
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
- Picture: Heritage in Schools
- Maker not stated on source page, ie.pinterest.com
- kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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