Enclosure in Clooniher, County Longford

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What is recorded here

Situated on reclaimed grassland 270m ENE of the shoreline of Lough Forbes. Cropmark of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery and various OSI aerial images. The outline of the monument is best preserved on E side where traces of a bank with external fosse are visible. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/09/2019 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ross Waters Date of upload: 5 February 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF008-044

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