Enclosure in Cloonrabrackan, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located in mature meadow grass at the bottom of a slight S-facing slope. Although the LiDAR image (ibid. 189, 74, 2) depicts a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a bank feature that is overlain by an NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter at SW with mixed woodland beyond this feature, an antiquity cannot be confirmed by field inspection.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-217

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