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Embanked enclosure in Doonard Beg (RO023-112----)

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RO023-112----
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What is recorded here

Marked as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1837 ed. and as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a slight N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, it is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO023-113----) is c. 65m to the SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-112

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  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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