Enclosure in Legnagrow, County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Raised circular area (int. diam. 8m) enclosed by a low, narrow earthen bank accompanied by an apparently modern external trench. Site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field bank running NW-SE, the area SW of which has been levelled. Entrance feature (Wth 3m) at N. Known locally as a 'fort'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV006-012

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