Embanked enclosure in Raheen, fairy fort in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

At the E end of an E-W ridge just NW of rath (RO022-018002-). Subcircular platform (dims. 26.2m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at W to 1.6m at S) which merges into the ground NE-SE. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but a bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.6m) was recorded on the perimeter in 1982 (SMR file). It remained unplanted in a coniferous forest in the 1990s, and is now in pasture but it was partly damaged at W when the forest was harvested. Rath (RO022-017----) is just to the SW. See the attached aerial view taken from the W with this monument in the foreground.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO022-018001

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Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
Maker not stated on source page, irishheritagenews.ie
Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie
Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Tulsk GAA club website; individual photographer not stated, www.tulskgaa.ie

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