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Moated site in Mitchelstowndown East

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In reclaimed pasture, 90m NE of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown. An enclosure (LI049-025----) lies 140m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site immediately E of a linear cropmark running N-S on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578, Site 256) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as rectangular-shaped cropmark transected at SE by post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cropmark of rectangular shaped earthwork visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 342, 22) taken 05/01/2003. See attached BGE aerial photograph, oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 September 2021

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