Enclosure in Cornalaghta, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) only on the OS 25-inch map. It is situated on top of a scrub-covered knoll that is towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 50m to the NW. No feature is visible at ground level , although a low scarp on the W side was evident in the 1940s (OSFM).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE011-043

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