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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Curry (roscommon By., Elia Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a low north-west to south-east drumlin ridge as an oval area measuring twenty-eight metres north-south and twenty-two and a half metres east-west. The site joined another rath immediately to the east, though only a short four-metre arc of its earthen bank and outer fosse now survives in reclaimed pasture at the north-east edge.
On the crest of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. Described as an oval area (dims 28m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse which was conjoined to rath (RO017-188002-) which is immediately to the E (Gannon 1972). A short arc (C 4m) of an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 1.3m; D 0.2m) survive at NE in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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