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Embanked enclosure in Tomona

Enclosure, large enclosure

What is recorded here

Situated on a W-facing slope with the N-S Urin River c. 300m to the W. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 90m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 2m) NNW-NE and elsewhere by the remains of a bank or a scarp. The entrance (Wth 5m) is at NNE. A trial excavation found the base of a bank (Wth c. 6m) with an internal fosse (Wth of top c. 2.5m; D c. 1m) and an external fosse (Wth of top c. 5m; D c. 1.2m) at S (Fanning 1972).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX019-001

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