Enclosure in Drumcondra, County Sligo

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In pasture, located on top of a low, narrow E-W ridge. There are good views over the surrounding landscape of small knolls and low, undulating ridges, broken by limestone outcropping. Raised circular area or low platform (17m N−S; 16.5m E−W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4-0.5m). The enclosure spans almost the full width of the narrow N−S ridge top, and the scarp at N and S is partly enhanced by the natural fall of round. The scarp is barely discernible on the E arc, and the W edge of the enclosure is overlain by later drystone field wall, on a NNW−SSE axis, which is engulfed in brambles and hawthorn. A few stones protrude slightly from the scarp, with one stone rising more prominently from the SW edge of the circuit.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL021-217

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