Crockaun, enclosure in County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated on top of a rise in an undulating landscape. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures S-NW which is described in italic lettering as 'Crockaun'. The curve of a revetted stone wall can be seen intermittently S-W (C c. 20m) in an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 30m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE024-055

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