What is recorded here

Enclosure in Gortakeeran is an enclosure in Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low rise in rough pasture with limestone outcrops. A one-metre scarp curves along the west side, a linear field boundary marks the east side and a sod-covered wall joins them. A narrow wall bisects the interior, leaving the eastern half slightly higher than the western half.

On a low rise, in rough pasture with limestone outcrops. A slightly raised roughly rectangular area defined by a scarp (H 1m) along the slightly curved W side, by a linear field boundary on the E side and by a low linear sod-covered wall (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.55m) elsewhere. The interior is bisected on the N-S axis by a low wall (Wth 2.6m) and the E half (7.4m E-W; 10.5m N-S) is c. 0.4m higher than the W half (11.5m E-W; 11m N-S). The remnant of a linear field boundary (long axis N-S) extends S from the W end of the S side. A rath (SL025-010----) lies c. 70m to 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). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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