What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooncommon Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular overgrown area twenty-seven metres north-south and twenty-six metres east-west on the floor of a small northwest-southeast valley. An earthen bank defines the perimeter, strengthens into a field bank southeast-southwest, and reduces to a scarp northwest-east-southeast beside a narrow fosse. Two other raths stand within two hundred and ten metres to the west-southwest and east.

On the floor of a small NW-SE valley with a NNW-SSE stream c. 70m to the E. Circular overgrown area (diam. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) which is strengthened as a field bank SE-SSW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NNW-ESE, with a fosse (Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m) SSW-N-SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO018-008----) is c. 170m to the WSW and rath (RO018-010001-) is c. 210m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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