Enclosure in Cooleen, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped haggard. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small D-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 23m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by a trackway along the straight side to NE. Monument is obscured by trees on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM030-080

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