What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowclogher, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low-lying landscape near a south-west to north-east stream, forming a circular grass-covered area about thirty metres across. A low earthen bank surrounds the space, holds some whitethorn bushes, and drops to a shallow scarp on its west side. A small rectangular house-site with a stony bank attaches to the inside of the main bank at the east.

On a low-lying landscape with a SW-NE stream or drain c. 10m to the SE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m E-W; 28.1m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2-4.2m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) which has some whitethorn bushes and is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) WSW-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A rectangular house-site (RO029-070002-) (ext. dims 5m N-S; 3m E-W) defined by a stony bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.1m) is attached to the inside of the bank at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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