Enclosure in Ellinure, County Monaghan (MO017-024----)

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What is recorded here

Situated at the crest of the N-facing slope of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge. It is depicted as an oval wooded feature described as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 and as an oval field on the 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It was described in 1968 as an oval grass-covered area (dims 64.5m NE-SW; 38.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; H c. 1-1.5m) and hedge with entrance gaps at NE (Wth of base 1.6m) and WSW (Wth of base 1.6m), but there was no visible fosse. It had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO017-024

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