Mass-rock in Knockananima, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

In a flat-bottomed oval pit with scrub on the perimeter (dims of top c. 10m NE-SW; 6.5m NW-SE; dims of base 8.6m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) which is at the bottom of an E-facing slope. The pit is defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m) S-W-NE and by a straight earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5-0.7m; L c. 8m) and remnants of a stone wall at SE. There is an opening in the perimeter (Wth 4.6m) at NE. A mass rock from here was incorporated into the altar of the Roman Catholic church of Drumlion at Drumercool (RO011-161----) c. 1.2 km to the S when the church was built in 1856 and it can be seen protruding from the rear of the altar (Keenehan et al. 2006).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-167

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