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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. The circular overgrown area measures about thirty-seven metres across and sits at the eastern end of an east-west drumlin ridge. An earthen bank forms most of the boundary while a one-metre scarp completes the circle. A field bank and road bank surround parts of the site, and Rath lies one hundred and sixty metres to the west-northwest.
At the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 37m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.7-1.4m; ext. H 1.5-2m) S-N-E, and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. It is circumscribed by a field bank SW-N and by a road bank S-SW. Rath (RO017-172----) is c. 160m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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