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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonslanor, County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1837 Ordnance Survey map marked a circular embanked enclosure about thirty metres across, while the 1915 edition showed only a bank fragment. Private house gardens now occupy the gentle north-facing slope where no feature remains visible at ground level.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank on the 1915 ed. Situated on a gentle N-facing slope, it is now occupied by the gardens of private houses and no feature is visible at ground level. Rath (RO029-013001-) is c. 70m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 January 2012

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