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Embanked enclosure in Cloonacolly

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Indicated as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a mound named 'Doonaunmore' on the 1914 ed. At the bottom of a S-facing slope on the NE shore of Cloonacolly Lough (dims c. 1-1.3km NW-SE; c. 500-600m NE-SW), c. 50m from the shore. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered mound (dims of base 25.5m E-W; 20m N-S) with a flat top (dims 15.6m E-W; 12.5m N-S; H 2.5m at N to 4.3m at S) which has an excavated, grass-covered hollow (diam. of base 2.7m; D 0.8m) at the centre. The mound Doonaun Beg (RO-013-029----) is on the shore c. 400m to the WNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO013-030

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  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA Club, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
  • Éire Óg GAA Club, credited by Roscommon Herald; individual photographer not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • David Farrell Photography / Western People, www.westernpeople.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.atlasobscura.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, mastodon.scot
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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