What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cronin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area roughly thirty-seven metres across. An earthen bank defines the perimeter, reaching two metres in external height on the southwest and northwest where a flat-bottomed fosse accompanies it. The bank reduces to a low mound on the opposite side, leaving no identifiable original entrance.

On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m NNW-SSE; 36.3m ENE-WSW) with some bushes defined by an earthen bank best preserved SW-W-NE (at NNW: Wth of base 5.6m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) where it is accompanied by an external flat-bottomed fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 7.3m; Wth of base 1.3m; D 1.2m) and faint traces of an outer bank. The defining bank is reduced to a low mound (at SSE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) with no evidence of a fosse NE-E-SW, and there is no identifiable original entrance. There is a small rectangular house platform (RO047-020002-) (dims c. 3m x 2m) inside the perimeter at SW. There are lazy-beds and clearance cairns in the interior. See the attached aerial view taken from the NE Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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