Enclosure in Kinitty, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AJN 85-88), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope of a N-S valley. At the centre, and integral with the fields (RO035-034002-), is a rectangular enclosure (dims 24.5m WNW-ESE; 15.7m NNE-SSW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.1-0.4m) with an entrance (Wth 1m) towards the W end of the S perimeter and just E of a house site (RO035-034003-). There is a second house site (RO035-034005-) (int. dims c. 5m N-S; 2.3m E-W) at the NW angle of the enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO035-034001

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