Enclosure in Derryhoosh, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located on a gentle N-facing slope. A circular cropmark is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 269/268) from the 1970s, and a slightly raised feature can be seen on the NW side of a relict NE-SW field bank on Google Earth (16/11/2008). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level. Date of revised upload: 30 August 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO007-013

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