Earthwork in Spring Gardens, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 10m N-S) truncated by an E-W field bank at N, and situated at the crest of a low ridge in a fairly high undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO032-040

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