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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cuilmore (roscommon By., Ballygarden Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an oval grass and scrub-covered area on a slight west-facing slope of a broad low drumlin. An overgrown earthen bank defines the site, though it reduces to a scarp in some sections and a re-cut fosse faced with a stone wall in others. No identifiable original entrance remains visible within the circumscribed field bank.
On a slight W-facing slope of a broad low drumlin. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 58.6m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-4.5m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 1.2-1.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2-1.5m) N-NE and SE-SW, and a fosse (Wth of top 4-6m; Wth of base 2.3-2.8m; D 1.3m) NW-E-S which has been re-cut and faced with a stone wall on the outside NW-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank SE-SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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