Embanked enclosure in Aghacurreen, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On the gentle NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m) and outer fosse (at NW: Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.5m) SW-NW, and a scarp (H 0.6m at SE) elsewhere. It is surrounded by field banks NNW-NE and SSE-SW. There is no visible entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO014-040

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Maker not stated on source page, heritageireland.ie
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Éire Óg GAA Club, credited by Roscommon Herald; individual photographer not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.ru
GAA.ie; photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.thejournal.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ie

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