Earthwork in Kilgarriff, County Limerick (LI057-029----)

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What is recorded here

In pasture 400m W of the Ahnaguarra Stream. Enclosure (LI057-028----) lies 210m to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a semi-circular-shaped area enclosed by a field boundary. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 35m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a bank with trace of an outer fosse from SW-W, truncated at NW and SE by a roadway running NW-SE. Outline of monument delimited by trees is visible on either side of a local roadway on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-029

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Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Colin Park, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Glenroe Hurling Club official website; individual aerial photographer not named, glenroegaa.com
john salter, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, ianmiddleton.co.uk
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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