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Enclosure in Dangan

Enclosure
Enclosure in Dangan
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In gently undulating terrain, sloping gradually to S, in lush meadow. Enclosure depicted on the 1st (1840) 6-inch OS map as an irregular 5-sided enclosure and as an oval enclosure on the 1907 6-inch OS map, with stream forming the W side. The monument has been levelled but survives as a raised, roughly semi-circular raised area (diam. 40m N-S; 20m E-W; ext. H c. 0.5-0.6m). A field boundary with deep ditch runs N-S along the W side of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 November 2013
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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