Embanked enclosure in Ballinlough, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a low hillock. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 32.8m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.5m) at SE and a scarp (H 0.5-0.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, and the modernised entrance (Wth 3m) is at SE. The perimeter is truncated slightly by a NW-SE road bank at NE, but possible houses (RO025-017002-) which were visible in 1984 as a low stony mound (dims 6m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) at the centre and inside the perimeter at E (RO025-017003-) (SMR file) can no longer be seen. Archaeological testing (06E0546) c. 130m to the NW failed to produce any relate material (Moore 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO025-017001

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