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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooneen (hartland), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle east-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, forming a subrectangular grass and scrub-covered area defined by earthen banks reaching up to 4.7 metres wide at the west. The structure appears as a subrectangular embanked enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and as a D-shaped hachured feature on the later 1919 edition. No visible fosse or identifiable original entrance remains within the earthwork.
On a gentle E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a subrectangular embanked enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and a D-shaped hachured feature on the 191911 edition. This is a subrectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 26.9m N-S; 26.1m E-W) defined by earthen banks with some bushes (Wth 2.5-3.5m generally to 4.7m at W; int. H 0.2-0.5m generally to 1.1m at W; ext. H 0.3m at S to 0.9m at N). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The earthwork (RO023-140----) is c. 190m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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