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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corroy (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle east-facing slope as a subcircular overgrown area measuring forty-one point five metres northeast-southwest and thirty-six point six metres northwest-southeast. An overgrown earthen bank, four point one to five point eight metres wide, defines the perimeter, though it is incorporated into a field bank on the south-northwest and reduced to a scarp on the east-southeast. A narrow outer fosse runs north-northeast, while no identifiable original entrance remains visible.
On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 41.5m NE-SW; 36.6m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.1-5.8m; int. H 0.75-0.95m; ext. H 1.3m at SW to 2.15m at NE), which is incorporated into a field bank S-NW and reduced to a scarp E-S, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.7m; Wth of base 3.2m; D 0.4m) N-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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