What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballinderry, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the bottom of an east-facing slope as a circular grass area measuring thirty-four metres east-west and thirty-one metres north-south. An earth and stone bank surrounds the centre, while a rounded fosse cuts through the southern edge. A northeast entrance and causeway provide access, but an east-northeast to west-southwest field wall now bisects the monument.

Towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.7m) with some scrub which has been quarried NW-NE, and a rounded fosse (at S: Wth of top 7.2m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) and causeway (Wth 3.3m; H 0.5m) at NE, and the monument is bisected by an ENE-WSW field wall (max. ext. diam. 50m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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