Earthwork in Carrownderry, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Visible as a small circular feature defined by an earthen bank (diam. c. 10m) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 469-8), and situated on an undulating low-lying landscape at the NW corner of a field. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. It may have been a ring-barrow or spoil.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO045-191

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