Doonaun Beg, mound in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1914 ed.of the OS 6-inch map where it is named 'Doonaun Beg', and situated on a shelf at the bottom of a S-facing slope at the NW corner of Cloonacolly Lough (dims c. 1-1.3km NW-SE; c. 500-600m NE-SW). Oval grass-covered mound (dims of base 21.6m E-W; 15.6m N-S) which is flat-topped (dims of top 13m E-W; 6.3m N-S; H 1.4m at W to 2m at S). It is slightly quarried around the base at S and on top. The possible crannog (RO013-028----) is c. 180m to the SW, and the mound called Doonaun More (RO013-030----) is on the shore c. 400m to the ESE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO013-029

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Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA Club, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
Éire Óg GAA Club, credited by Roscommon Herald; individual photographer not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
David Farrell Photography / Western People, www.westernpeople.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Maker not stated on source page, www.atlasobscura.com
Maker not stated on source page, mastodon.scot
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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