What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Barrinagh (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular grass-covered area sits at the crest of a north-facing slope on a west-northwest to east-southeast ridge. An earthen bank surrounds the centre, while a flat-bottomed fosse separates it from a complete outer bank that joins a field bank on the east, south and north-northwest. A modern entrance cuts through the inner bank at the southwest, although the original entrance remains unidentified.

At the crest of the N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52m NW-SE; 51m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m at S to 1.3m at E) S-NNE separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.1-6.2m; Wth of base 2.3m at E to 4m at S and N; D 0.8m N-E to 1.6m at S) from a complete outer bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.2m generally to 0.8m at W), which is incorporated into a field bank E-S-NNW. There is a modern entrance through the inner bank at SW, but the original entrance is not identified (max. ext. dim. 61.5m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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