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Linear earthwork in Carrickmines Great

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Linear earthwork in Carrickmines Great
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Goodbody (1993, 30) has identified a linear section of bank in a golf Course at Carrickmines, which he suggests, could be part of the Pale Ditch. This runs in a NNW-ESE direction on a plateau in a N facing mountain slope. It has extensive views of the Killiney coast in the E and Dublin Mountains in the S; views are restricted in the W and N. It comprises a flat-topped bank (L 106m, max. Wth 4m, H 0.70m). This is planted along its length with evergreen trees. There is a modern break in the S end of the earthwork. There is a ditch along the W side (Wth 3m, D 0.52m) and traces of a silted up ditch along the E side of the earthwork, near where it terminates in the S. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

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