What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonarragh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a northwest-southeast drumlin ridge and presents a circular grass-covered area forty-one point three metres across. An earthen bank three point three to four point five metres wide and up to four hundred millimetres internally high defines the northwest, east and south edges, while a ten-centimetre scarp marks the remainder. No visible fosse or identifiable original entrance survives.
On the crest of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.3m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4.5m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.2m) NW-E-S which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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