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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cleaheen, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the top of a low drumlin as a circular grass-covered area measuring twenty-two metres east-west and twenty-one metres north-south. An overgrown earthen bank three-point-three to four metres wide defines the perimeter, while a drain skirts the north-west and north edge because no visible entrance remains.
On top of a low drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 22m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an overgrown and eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4m; int. H 0.15m at S to 0.45m at N; ext. H 0.85m at S to 1.2m at N). There is no visible fosse or entrance, but a drain skirts the perimeter NW-N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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