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Enclosure

Enclosure, large enclosure

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Enclosure is an enclosure, large enclosure in Grange More, County Roscommon, Ireland. Aerial photographs show two concentric circles on a rise in a flat valley, with a small grass mound inside a larger circular boundary marked only by vegetation. The outer circle measures about 90 metres across and may have served ceremonial purposes. Rath lies 130 metres to the north-northwest.
Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221, 145-46) as two concentric circular features situated on a rise in a flat E-W valley with E-W ridges c. 500m to the N and S. This is a circular grass-covered mound (diam. 24m E-W; 23m N-S; H 0.3-1m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 3-15m) defined by a slight scarp (H c. 0.1m). This is on the perimeter at SW of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) defined by the narrow vegetation mark of a fosse, but this feature is not visible at ground level. It may be an elaborate ceremonial enclosure. Rath (RO009-019----) is c. 130m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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