Enclosure in Corsallagh, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

On a gentle W-facing slope with bog immediately to W and S. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure. A roughly circular area (44m N-S) defined by a flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.6m) and a flat-topped external bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.5m; int. H 1m) SSE-NNE. Neither the fosse nor the bank are visible at ground level NNE-SSE; a quarry hollow is roughly on the line of the fosse at SE. The interior is grass-covered.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL031-049

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