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Enclosure in Brackyle

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A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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In forestry, on poorly drained ground cut by land drains and watercourses, the Dead River IS 250m to N which also marks a townland boundary with Pullagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 169: AP 4/3725). Monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/05/2002 and the area is obscured by forestry on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/05/2002 and 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 169. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020
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