Earthwork in Kingsbrook, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In poorly drained pasture, on a low rise. An elongated oval mound (40m E-W; 16m N-S; H 0.8m), densely covered with overgrowth, on top of which is a smaller raised platform (c. 15m E-W; 6m N-S; H 1m) with some large stones on the S and E sides, possibly the result of field clearance. There is a quarry hollow (c. 3m x 5m; D c. 1.2m) in the SE end of the mound.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-083

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