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Embanked enclosure in Skrine

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 1.3m) from an outer bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.3m), with an entrance at ENE. A NW-SE field wall cuts through the perimeter at SW, and the foundations of an NE-SW field wall run through the interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO041-066

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Photo credits
  • RosCamán, Roscommon official hurling development committee; individual aerial photographer not stated, roscaman.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Roscommon GAA County Board (article credits GAA.ie content); individual photographer not stated, www.gaaroscommon.ie
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