Earthwork in Mullycrock, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. It is depicted as a D-shaped hachured feature (dims c. 25m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) bounded by straight field banks at N and E only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised and rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 8m N-S; c. 8m E-W) bounded by straight field banks at the N (H 1.7m) and E sides with outer re-cut drains, and by a curving field bank S-W that had been removed by c. 2013 (Bing). It had a modern entrance in the N field bank. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO019-001

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