What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonarragh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring 48 metres east-west and 43.6 metres north-south. An overgrown earthen bank surrounds the centre, separated by a rounded fosse from an outer bank that joins field banks on the southwest and northwest but disappears toward the northeast and southeast. A pond now fills the southern portion of the fosse, reaching 72 metres across in both directions.

On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 48m E-W; 43.6m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.2m at N to 6.3m at E; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.5m at S to 1.5m at W) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.2-7.2m; D 0.3m at E to 1.2m at N) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 3.5m at S to 6.4m at W; ext. H 0.1-0.4m), which is incorporated into field banks SW-N and removed NE-SE. There in no identifiable entrance, but a pond has been created in the fosse at S (max. ext. diam. 72m N-S; 72m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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