Earthwork in Tullen, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) bisected by a N-S lane on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped field (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE on the 1914 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill, it is not visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-115

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Picture notes

Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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