What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dacklin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular overgrown area twenty-eight metres wide on the gentle west-facing slope of a northeast-southwest drumlin ridge. Earthen banks and a scarp surround the centre, while a separate outer bank follows the south, west, north and southeast edges. Another rath lies about one hundred and fifty metres to the south.

On the gentle W-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 1-1.15m) NW-NE and S-W, and a scarp (H 0.7-0.9m) elsewhere separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.1m; D 0.4m at E) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 4-5.2m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W-N and at SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-097001-) is c. 150m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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