Ring-ditch in Glascarn, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small W-E stream c. 100m to the N. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse is visible on an oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVF 041) from 1968. It is also visible on OSIAP (2005) and Google Earth (24/06/2018). (Feeley 2001, 45-6, No. 35) See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (24/06/2018) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME045-013

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