Ring-ditch in Kilcarty, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a NW-SE esker ridge. It was first identified by the Tara Project of the Discovery Programme. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a fosse feature is visible on the OSI series of aerial images (2005). (Newman 1997, 340) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME037-031

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Maker not stated on source page, ms.fusedlearning.com
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Meath Chronicle; individual photographer not stated for this gallery image, www.meathchronicle.ie

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