Ring-ditch in Ardmulchan, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located on the summit of a slight NE-SW ridge (L c. 150m) and c. 70m from the crest of a steep slope down (H c. 30m) to a SW-NE section of the River Boyne which is c. 200m to the NW. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) was recorded by G. Barrett on an oblique aerial photographs (GB89.J.21) in July 1989, but it does not appear on any other series.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME025-064

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