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Enclosure in Donaskeagh

Enclosure

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Enclosure in Donaskeagh is an enclosure in Donaskeagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a circular area 27 metres north-northwest to south-southeast and 28 metres east-northeast to west-southwest. A scarp 3.2 metres wide and 1.5 metres high forms the north-east to south-east and south-southwest to north-west edges. A shallow scarp 5.25 metres wide and 1.1 metres deep forms the north-west to north-east edge.
In improved pasture. A circular area (dims. 27m NNW-SSE; 28m ENE-WSW) defined by scarp (Wth 3.2m; H 1.5m) from NE-SE and SSW-NW, which is particularly shallow (Wth 5.25m; D 1.1m) from NW-NE, and traces of a bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.55m) from SE-SSW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 3m) at the ESE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope. A N-S field boundary runs W of the monument but does not interfer with it. There is a standing stone (TS059-058----) c. 90m to the SW and an enclosure (TS059-059----) c. 110m to the SSE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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