Enclosure in Vesnoy, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a level low-lying landscape. Urney church (RO023-177001-) is within a circular enclosure (dims 30.6m E-W; 27.4m N-S) planted with trees and defined by a grass-covered wall footing (Wth 0.8m) SE-SW and a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere, but there is no evidence of burial. (O'Connell 2000) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-177002

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