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Enclosure in Rathbrenan

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Enclosure in Rathbrenan
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Enclosure in Rathbrenan is an enclosure in Rathbrenan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a southwest-facing slope on a broad northwest-southeast ridge. Knox recorded a fifty-metre east-west and twenty-four-metre north-south structure attached to the north of the rath, with earthen banks about one point two metres wide. The pasture no longer shows those banks at ground level.
At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Described as an enclosure, or annexe (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 24m N-S), or field attached to the N of rath (RO039-034001-) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 1.2m) (Knox 1915, 297-8). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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