Embanked enclosure in Cloonfad Beg, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On top of a small NE-SW drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 39.5 N-S; 31.1m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E and S to 1.5m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) WNW-N. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter is incorporated into a field boundary and hedge W-N. Rath (RO011-118001-) is immediately to the NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-118

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