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Enclosure in Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)

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Enclosure in Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)
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In improved pasture, 15m E of the River Mahore which also marks a townland boundary with Gortacloona and 115m S of a confluence with the Ballynamona River. Ringforts (LI032-089/092----) lie 115m to N and 135m to S respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 228: AP 5/2016) as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork defined by a scarp to E. Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork (31m NNW-SSE; 22m ENE-WSW) enclosed by the angle of a floodplain scarp to E and S and by a curvilinear-scarp from SW-W-N-NE, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 228 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 November 2020

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