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Field system in Rathsillagh Upper

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Near the top of a long moderately steep E-facing pasture slope. Immediately E of a possible enclosure (KD032-017001-) Visible on 1971 aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 25, BGN 19) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses, possibly forming part of an associated field system. No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-017002

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