Enclosure in Skeagh, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located on top of a drumlin. It is depicted as a D-shaped field attached to the W side of a farm lane only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped area (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S), now occupied by a modern dwelling and used as garden (OSAP).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO008-027

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