Enclosure in Ardloy, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, at the top of the NW-facing slope of a ridge. The enclosure is levelled and evident only as a faint rise along the N arc (C 13m). Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) cut at SE by a linear NE-SW field boundary which has also been levelled.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-249

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