Embanked enclosure in Ballyglass Lower, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked as circular embanked feature (diam c. 30m) with a central mound (diam. c. 5m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NNE-facing slope, immediately N of Fort George House. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.6m). It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053001-) is immediately to the NW and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO035-053002

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