Ring-ditch in Hacketstown, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Located in a large arable field, c. 200m ESE of the site of Hacketstown House, cropmarks indicate the presence of the subsurface remains of a ring-ditch. The ring-ditch, visible on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018), comprises a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 15m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m). There are no indications of any gap across the ditch. Other irregular cropmarks in the immediate environs may represent the subsurface remains of periglacial features.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU005-193

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