What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Curragh (decies Within Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland. The 1999 inventory recorded a subcircular, overgrown area measuring about 35 metres east to west and 27 metres north to south. It is defined by a flat-topped earthen bank, 10 metres wide at its base and 2.5 metres wide at its top, standing 1.5 metres high internally and 2.5 metres high externally at the north-northeast. A round-bottomed fosse, 3.5 metres wide at its base and 1.8 metres deep at the north-northeast, runs with the bank, but no entrance was identified.

Towards the E end of an E-W ridge. Overgrown subcircular area (dims. c. 35m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth at base 10m; Wth at top 2.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.5m at NNE) with a round-bottomed fosse (Wth at base 3.5m; D 1.8m at NNE). Entrance not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

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