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Embanked enclosure

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Embanked enclosure is an enclosure in Ballyglass Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland. Marked as a circular embanked feature with a central mound on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map, it sits on a north-northeast-facing slope immediately north of Fort George House. The circular area is defined by a shallow scarp and may have been a tree-ring, with two other enclosures located nearby to the northwest and southwest.
Marked as circular embanked feature (diam c. 30m) with a central mound (diam. c. 5m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NNE-facing slope, immediately N of Fort George House. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.6m). It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053001-) is immediately to the NW and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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