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Enclosure in Rathbaun

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In undulating pasture, on a slight NW-facing slope. The enclosure is visible as a roughly oval area (30m N-S; 40m WNW-ESE) of rough thistle infested ground in an otherwise grassy field. A field boundary with a drain on its N side, both orientated NNW-ESE, abuts this area on the S side. No definite enclosing element could be located. There is no local tradition of a fort here. It is visible in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3034207-8) as a partially overgrown oval area with pits or hollows in the NE quadrant.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL033-003

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  • Eamonn McMunn / Sligo GAA (credit printed on photograph), www.sligogaa.ie
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