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What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the last road, a grassy ring rises from the slope like a forgotten breath. The bank is wide enough to walk beside and the ditch deep enough to swallow an ankle, yet no wall, gate or house remains inside. The clearance cairn at the north-east edge suggests people once stripped the stones from the field and stacked them in a line, perhaps marking the boundary between the living land and the buried one.

Located at the top of an E-facing slope at the tip of an E-W spur. Grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 25.8m NE-SW; 25.3m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5-8m; int. H 0.1m at SE to 1m at W; ext. H 1m generally to 1.6m at NE) with some bushes, and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.2-3m; D 0.3m at SE to 1.2m at NE). The entrance (Wth 0.8m) is at ESE and there is a clearance cairn (dims 10m x 3m; H 0.3m) inside the bank at NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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