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Embanked enclosure — Gortaganny (athlone North By.),roverkilly

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Embanked enclosure — Gortaganny (athlone North By.),roverkilly
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Depicted only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65m), and situated on the crest of a low N-S rise on a SW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 55m NNW-SSE; 23m ENE-WSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) S-NW reduced to a scarp NW-N and backing onto a NNW-SSE field wall and townland boundary with Roverkilly at E, but it is not visible E of this feature. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO044-029----) is c. 170m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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