What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cleaheen, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the southwest end of a low northwestern ridge, forming a D-shaped grass-covered area twenty-six and a half metres east-west and twenty metres north-south. A three-metre-wide earthen bank and shallow scarp define part of the perimeter, while a disused laneway cuts through the southeast edge. No entrance or surrounding ditch remains visible.
At the SW end of a low NW-SE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 26.5m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) N-ENE and a scarp (max. H 0.8m) S-W, but there is no evidence of the perimeter W-N. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and a disused NE-SW laneway truncates the perimeter at SE (L c. 15m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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