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Kilcommon Fort

Enclosure, large enclosure

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Kilcommon Fort is an enclosure, large enclosure in Ballybrogan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest at the south end of a slight north-west-south-east spur and appears as Kilcommon Fort in gothic lettering on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps. A circular grass-covered area measures roughly eighty metres across and contains a grass and scrub-covered bank that survives east of a north-south field wall, while a scarp defines the remaining perimeter. Kilcommon church stands immediately to the south.
On the crest at the S end of a slight NW-SE spur, and described as 'Kilcommon Fort' in gothic lettering on the OS 6-inch maps. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 79.8m N-S; 79.1m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered bank (at ESE: Wth 4.7m; H 0.2-0.5m) ENE-SSE surviving E of a N-S field wall. Elsewhere the perimeter is defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.5m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Kilcommon church (RO045-116001-) is immediately to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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