Enclosure in Ardline, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on top of a drumlin and c. 15m W of a rath (SL035-113----). Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachured bank (C c. 30m) S-NNW. It is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL035-112

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