What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowduff AND Garbally, County Roscommon, Ireland. On a rise in an undulating landscape, a circular grass and scrub-covered area measures 36.2m ENE-WSW and 34.9m NNW-SSE. An earth and stone bank 4.7-5.6m wide and 0.6-0.75m high internally defines the perimeter, with an outer rounded fosse most visible ENE-E. The entrance and causeway are at SE, drystone walls circumscribe the monument ENE-S-WSW, and the perimeter is quarried S-SW.

On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 36.2m ENE-WSW; 34.9m NNW-SSE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.7-5.6m; int. H 0.6-0.75m; ext. H 1.5m) with some bushes, which may have had external stone-facing especially at W, and an outer rounded fosse that is most visible ENE-E (Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.4m) but which is now largely obscured by field stones. The entrance (Wth 2m) and causeway (Wth 3.7m) are at SE. The monument is circumscribed by drystone walls ENE-S-WSW, and the perimeter is quarried S-SW. Cashel (RO051-055001-) is c. 190m to the SSW. See the attached aerial image taken from the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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