Ring-ditch in Grenan, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Aerial photograph (GB90.BM.02.) shows a ring-ditch. Low level earthwork on aerial photograph. Now surrounded by quarrying. May already have been destroyed. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 03 December 2009 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 14 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA035-088

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