Embanked enclosure in Castletown, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a low N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.25-1.5m) SSW-NNW reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at N to 1.9m at E) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth 3m of base; D 0.4m) SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance. Leamgire castle (RO010-075----) is c. 130m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-076

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Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie

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