Farn Green, fairy fort in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on an 18th-century map (Kelly, M. J. 2000), and situated on level ground in Castlerea town on the N bank of the ESE-WNW Francis River just after it turns SW before joining a N-S section of the River Suck. The location is now occupied by the cattle mart or is on the present line of the river.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO026-027

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Darren J. Prior / Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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Maker not stated on source page, irishheritagenews.ie

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