Ring-ditch in Carrickittle, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet pasture. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 92: AP 4/3615) as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Faint cropmark of a ring ditch (diam. c. 8m) visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 92 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 26 April 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI033-078

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