Embanked enclosure in Lissydaly, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.9m N-S; 36.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6.5-7m; int. H 1.3-1.8m; ext. H 3-3.5m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.4-10.2m; Wth of base 4-5m; D 0.5m at N to 1.5m at S), surrounded by outer field banks or walls NE-S-NW. There is no visible entrance, but the bank is replaced by a drystone wall and the fosse reduced (Wth of top 5m; D 0.9m) NE-S (max. ext. diam. 57.6m N-S; 55.7m E-W). There is a local tradition of a Man-made underground passage (RO013-013002-) inside the perimeter at NE which was open in the 1920s (Gannon 1972).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO013-013001

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Duncan Grant, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA Club, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Éire Óg GAA Club, credited by Roscommon Herald; individual photographer not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
GAA.ie; photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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