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Ring-ditch in Gallowshill

Ring-ditch
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Map note: Ring-ditch in Gallowshill appears on the map as a ring-ditch around Gallowshill, County Kildare, Ireland. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.
Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.06) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch defined by two concentric fosses.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD035-094

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Photo credits
  • James Lawlor / Kildare Nationalist, www.kildare-nationalist.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.hellotravel.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
  • Hello, I am Bruce on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irishexaminer.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
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