Earthwork in Tonywardan, County Longford

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What is recorded here

Situated on reclaimed grassland. Outline of large oval-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 73m) intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Cultivation-ridges running N-S clearly visible running across monument on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 April 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF015-097

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