What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Coolnageer, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular embanked enclosure has an external diameter of about thirty metres and occupies a low-lying level landscape. Slight traces of the scarp, reaching a height of half a metre, remain at the northwest edge within reclaimed pasture.
Marked faintly as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as portion of an enclosure on the 1915 ed. Situated on a low-lying level landscape. Slight traces of the scarp (H 0.5m) remain at NW in reclaimed pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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