What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cuilmore (roscommon By., Elia Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle west-facing drumlin slope as a 20-metre circular grass area bounded by an overgrown earthen bank and outer fosse. The west-southwest to northwest perimeter has been quarried into a pond, leaving no visible entrance.
On a gentle W-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 20m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m; at S: Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 2.7-3m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.4m at N to 0.9m at S) NW-E-WSW. The perimeter has been quarried to form a pond WSW-NW, and there is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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