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Indicated — Ballykeeran

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Situated on the edge of a ridge or rise, in woodland, overlooking Ballaghkeeran Lough to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subtriangular-shaped earthwork which seems to have been incorporated into a ‘Gravel Pit’ to N. Monument described in 1973 as a large roughly rectangular-shaped area now densely overgrown with impenetrable vegetation and largely inaccessible. The earthwork is defined by a very high steep scarp along the N side, which has been quarried. This quarry extends across most of the E half. The monument is defined by a steep bank to SE and W. There are the remains of an outer fosse along the SE side, beyond which is a field boundary consisting of a hedge-lined bank. Monument is visible today as a small coppice of woodland on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 06 November 2019

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