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Ring-ditch in Higginstown

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In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The cropmarks of three conjoined enclosures (KK020-125----; KK020-126----; KK020-127----) are also visible c. 100m to the SE. See attached imagery: KK020-124----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 June 2023

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK020-124

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