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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bealragh, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the west end of a short east-west ridge as a D-shaped overgrown area measuring roughly twenty-five metres north-northwest to south-southeast and twenty metres east-northeast to west-southwest. A low scarp rises ninety centimetres above an outer fosse that reaches three and a half to four point two metres across its base and drops sixty centimetres. The west edge touches a north-northwest to south-southeast field bank, the south edge meets an east-northeast to west-southwest lane, and Rath lies fifty metres to the east.
At the W end of a short E-W ridge. D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 25m NNW-SSE; c. 20m ENE-WSW) defined by a low scarp (H 0.9m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5-4.2m; D 0.6m) NW-E-SE. The site is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at W and an ENE-WSW lane at S. Rath (RO017-010----) is c. 50m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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