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Sterlings Paddock

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Map note: Around Derrinlough, County Offaly, Ireland, the map records Sterlings Paddock as an enclosure. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.
Not visible at ground level. Depicted as Starling's Paddock on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF030-004

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