Enclosure in Rosses Lower, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In low-lying level wet area planted with coniferous trees. Marked on the 1836-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a large oval-shaped enclosure but depicted on the 1940-1 edition as a small, roughly circular area (diam. c.15m). This monument is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL008-109

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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