What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowduff AND Garbally, County Roscommon, Ireland. Marked on the 1837 and 1915 Ordnance Survey maps as a circular embanked enclosure about 45 metres across, it sits at the southeast edge of a hillock in an undulating landscape with field walls. Although buried beneath improved pasture and invisible at ground level, satellite imagery from 2013 and 2015 reveals a parch mark suggesting a bank and outer fosse around a D-shaped area 30 metres north-south and 20 metres east-west. Local reports describe an underground passage within the interior, preserving the site as a probable rath rather than an open monument.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the SE edge of a hillock in an undulating landscape with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in improved pasture but it was probably a rath. The parch mark of what might be a bank with an outer fosse feature around a D-shaped area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) can be seen on Bing images (c. 2013) and digitalglobe images (c. 2015). There are local reports of an underground structure, possibly a Man-made underground passage (RO051-058002-), in the interior (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 June 2018

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