Enclosure, Oiligh, Co. Mayo

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Enclosure, Oiligh, Co. Mayo

In the townland of Oiligh in County Mayo, an enclosure sits in the landscape, recorded and classified but not yet fully explained.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and least understood monument types in Ireland, ranging from prehistoric farmsteads to early medieval ringforts, their banks and ditches forming rough circles that defined a domestic or agricultural space against the wider world. That this one has a name on the map and a place in the official record, yet remains largely undescribed, gives it a particular quality: known, but not quite knowable.

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