Enclosure, Ballincar, Co. Sligo

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Enclosure, Ballincar, Co. Sligo

On a ridge above Ballincar in County Sligo, a low, uneven ring in the pasture marks the outline of something that was once deliberately built.

It is easy to miss: the bank that once defined this roughly oval enclosure has been worn down almost entirely to a scarp, a gentle slope where a proper earthen wall once stood. The interior, perhaps fourteen metres across, remains level, and there is a distinct break in the surviving edge at the south-southwest, most likely the original entrance. Enclosures of this kind, formed by a raised bank and sometimes an accompanying ditch, are scattered across the Irish landscape and broadly prehistoric or early medieval in date, though pinning down any individual example is rarely straightforward without excavation.

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