Enclosure in Tullaghan, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

On top of a prominent hillock (H c. 6m). It is visible as a faint circular feature on vertical aerial photographs (ACAP: V204/52-1). The flat oval top of the hillock (dims 28m NE-SW; 17m NW-SE) has no evidence of an enclosing feature. The hilltop is overlain by a NW-SE field wall towards the edge at SW, and is grass-covered S of this feature but scrub covered to the N where there are the grass-covered walls (Wth 0.8m; H 0.4-0.8m) of a rectangular house site (int. dims 5.3m NE-SW; 4.6m NW-SE).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE001-033001

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