Embanked enclosure in Carrownageeragh, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a shelf on a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m at N to 4.1m at S; int. H 0.2-0.65m; ext. H 0.7m at N to 1.35m at S) reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) at NE and W. There is no visible fosse or entrance. An ENE-WSW field bank and drain crosses the interior just S of the centre.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-004

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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