Embanked enclosure in Tooreen, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On the S bank of a small NW-SE stream. Circular overgrown area (diam. 35m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m), which is reduced to a scarp NNE-ENE, with a fosse (Wth of top 3.7m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.3m) SE-W-NNW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO029-083----) is c. 140m to the NNE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO029-084

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David Maher / Sportsfile, as printed in the photograph caption; image published by the GAA, www.gaa.ie
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Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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