Enclosure in Caldragh, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Located on a gentle W-facing slope. It is visible as a large circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 4/1044-5). This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 84m N-S; 80m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) with some bushes and a slight fosse (Wth 3m) at S, and by a scarp (H 0.5-1m) elsewhere. It is bisected by an old E-W trackway towards the perimeter at S. Archaeological testing (05E0711) just to the SE produced no related material (Henry 2008).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE027-070

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