What is recorded here
Situated on top of a prominent drumlin that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 850m to the SW. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. 9.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) and an outer fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.25m). The monument is bisected by an E-W field bank and is a possible tree-ring. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE007-074
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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