Ring-ditch in Moneymore, County Louth

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What is recorded here

Located at the bottom of a slight N-facing slope and at the S edge of a smal basin (diam. c. 300m N-S; c. 300m E-W). An oval enclosure (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature is recorded in a gradiometer survey (18R0118) of a development area. It has a wide entrance at E and it may have numerous pits in the interior. It is situated beneath a N-S access route that is depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Murphy and Breen 2021, 9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 March 2022

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH024-091

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