Earthwork in Toberroddy, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a low rise. A semicircular raised area (16.6m N-S; 33m E-W; H 1.5m) with an area (14.8m E-W; 11.5m N-S) dug out of its centre. According to local information, the surface sloped gently down to S prior to soil being removed from it in the past.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL037-060

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