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Enclosure in Termon

Enclosure

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Enclosure in Termon is a subcircular stone wall, forty metres across, hidden in scrub on the lower SW slope of Gortaclare Mountain. A wedge tomb lies one hundred and thirty metres to the SE, suggesting the site served burial or ritual purposes rather than ordinary housing. The grass has swallowed most of the wall, yet the shape still holds against the slope. People may have gathered there before roads or fields arrived, marking death or season on the edge of the Termon plateau.
In scrub on the lower SW slope of Gortaclare Mountain with Termon plateau rising to the NE. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall visible on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) orthophotograph and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. A wedge tomb (CL006-057----) lies c. 130m to the SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 December 2021

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