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Quarry in Ballyragget

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A sub-rectilinear enclosure (max. diam. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) showing as cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGG 85, 1971). There is a quarry of roughly the same shape depicted at this location on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a limekiln at the NW edge. The cropmark of a fosse may relate to an…

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A sub-rectilinear enclosure (max. diam. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) showing as cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGG 85, 1971). There is a quarry of roughly the same shape depicted at this location on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a limekiln at the NW edge. The cropmark of a fosse may relate to an enclosure which pre-dates the quarry, the interior being quarried out, though it is also possible that the fosse relates to a later boundary enclosing the quarry. A trackway (KK010-002006-) also identified on the aerial photograph seems to be heading towards the limekiln and is probably contemporary with it. There are four ring-ditches in the vicinity of the quarry (KK010-002001-; KK010-002002-; KK010-002003- and KK010-002005-) c. 70m to the N, c. 35m to the NW, c. 75m to NW and c. 40m to the SW respectively.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK010-002004

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