Embanked enclosure in Skeanamuck, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

In an undulating landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32.7m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a wall footing with some bushes which is best preserved NE-E (Wth 1.55-1.65m; max. int. H. 0.5m; max. ext. H 0.55m). The entrance (Wth 3.7m) is at E. The monument is truncated by a N-S field wall towards the perimeter at W and does not survive visibly W of this.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO051-016

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