What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Annaghbeg (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a D-shaped grass area at the southwest end of a low rise near Lough Naseer, bounded by a scrub-covered scarp and a field bank. Another rath sits one hundred and thirty metres to the northeast.
At the SW end of a low rise on the SE shore of Lough Naseer (max. dims c. 850m NE-SW; c. 200m NW-SE), c. 30m from the lake. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 64 NE-SW; 54m NW-SE) defined by a scrub-covered scarp (H 0.75-1.2m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the perimeter is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE. Rath (RO007-060----) is c. 130m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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