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Barrow — ditch barrow in Gortacloona

Barrow — ditch barrow
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On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 430m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Barrow (LI032-240----) lies 130m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 226: AP 5/2015) as a suboval-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (31m ENE-WSW; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 226 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020

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