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Enclosure in Kilfeakle

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Enclosure in Kilfeakle is an enclosure in Kilfeakle, County Tipperary, Ireland. The 1840 map showed a roughly circular area about 27 metres across, while the 1904 map showed an oval area 40 metres east-west and 24 metres north-south defined by a scarp, with another oval depression 32 metres east-west and 26 metres north-south to the northeast. The enclosure is not visible above ground level now. Local information says a sand and gravel pit about 4 feet deep was dug here and four or five waste mounds were cast up around it before the area was reinstated years ago.
In improved pasture, on a ridge (long axis c. E-W). It is depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 27m) and on the 1904 ed. as an oval area (dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 24m N-S) defined by scarp with an adjoining oval area (dims. c. 26m N-S; c. 32m E-W) to the NE which is depicted as a depression. The enclosure is not visible above ground level. According to local information, a sand and gravel pit was excavated here (D c. 4ft) and c. 4 or 5 waste mounds were cast up around it; the area was subsequently reinstated years ago. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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