What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownamaddy (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a broad low rise as an oval grass-covered area measuring 68m north-south and 51.4m east-west. An earthen bank with bushes defines the boundary, though reduced to a scarp in the north-east and south-west sections. A shallow fosse cuts through the north-west, east and south-west areas while traces of a later field bank appear outside the north-east section.

On a broad, low rise. Oval or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 68m N-S; 51.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.7-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.5-1m), which is reduced to a scarp N-NE (H 1.1m) and SSE-WSW (H 1.5m), and a shallow fosse (Wth of base 1.7-2m; D 0.2-0.6m) NW-E-SSW with traces of a later field bank outside it N-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO023-020----) is c. 210m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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