The Doon RO011-080----, Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S bank of the River Shannon at a point where there may have been a ford. A grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 16-19m; H 1m at S to 4-6m on the N (river) side) running ESE-WNW (L c. 250m), parallel with and hindering access to the bank of the river. It may be part of the Doon of Drumsna (RO011-058----), the W end of which is c. 2.8 km to the ENE with an intervening section of double banks (RO011-188----) on the SE bank of the river c. 1.7km to the ESE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-080

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