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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corboley, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gently undulating landscape as a circular grass-covered area thirty-five metres across, bounded partly by an earthen bank and partly by scrub. A field bank once incorporated its northern perimeter but has been removed, leaving no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Another rath sits sixty metres to the west-southwest.
On a gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE-SE and SW-NW with some scrub SW-NW. The perimeter was incorporated into a field bank NW-NE, which is now removed. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-059----) is c. 60m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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