What is recorded here
Earthwork in Frenchlawn is an earthwork in Frenchlawn, County Roscommon, Ireland. It stood on a southwest-facing slope beside the River Suck as a flat-topped mound with a fifteen-metre base and three-metre height before removal around 1990. The earthwork is no longer visible at ground level in the pasture, though an enclosure and children's burial ground remain nearby across the water.
On a SW-facing slope on the E side of the NW-SE River Suck, which is c. 60m to the SW. Described locally as a flat-topped mound (diam. of base c. 15m; diam. of top c. 5m; H c. 1m at SE to c. 3m at NW) which was removed c. 1990. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Enclosure (RO027-084----) is c. 120m to the W and children's burial ground (RO034-105----) is c. 130m to the SSE, on the other side of the river.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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