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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corry (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular shelf on a southeast-facing slope, measuring roughly thirty metres across. An overgrown earthen bank and shallow fosse define most of the perimeter, although a field bank now circumscribes the south and west edges. No visible entrance remains.
On a shelf on a SE-facing slope. Circular rush and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.7m at N to 5.9m at S; int. H 0.4m at S to 1.5m at N; ext. H 1.2m) and fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.4-0.6m) S-W-N, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.15m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance and a field bank circumscribes the perimeter S-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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