Enclosure in Drumconnick, County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Located on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape with turloughs. A circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 65m E-W; c. 60m N-S) defined by a slight bank at N and NE but mostly by a scarp is visible on Google Earth (07/02/2019). A defunct NE-SW railway line from Mullingar to Cavan town is just to the NW. It is also visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013) and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore 11 March 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV025-140

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