Enclosure, Cuildoo, Co. Mayo

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Enclosure, Cuildoo, Co. Mayo

In the townland of Cuildoo in County Mayo, an enclosure sits in the landscape, recognised as an archaeological monument but not yet accompanied by any publicly available record of what it is, when it was built, or by whom.

That absence is itself a kind of fact. Ireland has thousands of enclosures, a broad category that covers everything from early medieval ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, to later field boundaries and ecclesiastical enclosures. Without further detail it is impossible to say which tradition this one belongs to, or what the ground might contain.

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