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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cornapallis, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a low north-west to south-east ridge as a circular grass-covered platform measuring thirty-four point two metres north-south and thirty-one point seven metres east-west. A shallow scarp rising zero point four to zero point six metres marks the edge, while the south-west to north-west perimeter joins a field bank. Another rath sits forty metres to the east-south-east.
On the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 34.2m N-S; 31.7m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) with some bushes. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. Rath (RO044-018----) is c. 40m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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