Building in Doonard More, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Inside the perimeter of rath (RO023-188001-) at N. The remains of a large building abuts the inner bank at N as a slight grass-covered and stony platform (dims 30m N-S; 8m E-W) with the foundations of walls visible at the SW angle.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-188002

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Maker not stated on source page, www.thejournal.ie
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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