Enclosure in Bleachgreen, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In pasture, at the top of the N-facing slope of Camp Hill. A circular grass-covered platform (diam. 19.5m; H 2m at N) with a slight trace of a bank along the N arc. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) within a bleaching green. A rath (SL020-201----) lies c. 150m to NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL020-202

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