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Stone Circle in Aghacurreen

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What is recorded here

At the crest of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, at the SE end. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 24.1m N-S) defined by 14 large stones (dims up to 1.2m x. 0.8m; H 0.7m) which are the inner or outer facing stones of the wall, the rest being robbed. Man-made underground passage (RO014-041002-) is in the interior, mass-rock (RO014-041003-) is 9m to the SE, and there are quarries to 15m the N and just to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO014-041001

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Photo credits
  • Éire Óg GAA Club, credited by Roscommon Herald; individual photographer not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • David Purchase, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • GAA.ie; photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Swinford GAA; the page thanks Michael Maye, Rita Campbell and Fiona McDonagh, without assigning the panoramic image to one maker, swinfordgaa.ie
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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