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Barrow — ring-barrow in Gortinar

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Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape on the floor of the Glenade valley with a N-S section of the river Bonet c. 400m to the E. Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 5/6929-8). This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 10.5m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.1-0.15m; ext. H 0.4m). It is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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