Enclosure in Garoke, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In undulating pasture, on an E-facing slope above a flat boggy area and on the N side of a road. A roughly circular raised area (int. diam. 16.7m x 15.8m; H 1.7m) with a trace of an earthen bank along the NW arc (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m). Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map by an arc of hachures W-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL035-033

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