Enclosure in Cloonsreane, fairy fort in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) with some trees on the 1837 ed. and as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a NE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO023-153----) is c. 100m to the ENE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-152

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Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
David Maher / Sportsfile, as printed in the photograph caption; image published by the GAA, www.gaa.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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