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Enclosure in Cloonsreane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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