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Sandy Banks

Enclosure

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Situated on a gentle ESE-facing slope. Rectangular enclosure hachured on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and named as 'Sandy Banks'. Not visible at ground level and no local memory of site at this location. May have been a sand quarry.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI001-004

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Guinevere's Garden; photographer not stated, Guinevere's Garden
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Kilbride GAA club; individual photographer not named, www.kilbridegaa.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irelandhighlights.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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