
What is recorded here
Enclosure in Bleachgreen is an enclosure in Bleachgreen, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the top of the north-facing Camp Hill slope as a circular grass platform nineteen point five metres across. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map identified it as a small embanked circle within a bleaching green, while a rath remains one hundred and fifty metres to the northwest.
In pasture, at the top of the N-facing slope of Camp Hill. A circular grass-covered platform (diam. 19.5m; H 2m at N) with a slight trace of a bank along the N arc. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) within a bleaching green. A rath (SL020-201----) lies c. 150m to NW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
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- What survives
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