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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonshannagh (roscommon By., Creeve Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupied a circular area about twenty-eight metres across near the southern shore of Lough Inch, marked by a low scarp, outer drain and moss band. Two other raths stood within one hundred and fifty metres to the south-west and south-south-west. The site has become invisible beneath pasture and scrub.
Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 100m from the S shore of the triangular Lough Inch (dims c. 500m NW-SE; c. 300m NE-SW). Described in 1983 as a circular area (diam. 28m) defined by a low scarp with an outer drain NNW-NE, and by a band (Wth 3m) of moss elsewhere (SMR file). No feature is now visible at ground level in pasture with some scrub. Raths (RO017-174----) and (RO017-175----) are c. 150m to the SW and SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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