What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dacklin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the east end of a low drumlin and measures twenty-eight metres across. An earthen bank and scarp surround a grass-covered centre, while a narrow entrance opens towards the east. A barrow stands ten metres to the northeast and another rath appears one hundred and fifty metres to the north.

Towards the E end of a low E-W drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-3.6m; int. H 0.35-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) W-N-SE and a scarp (H 0.7-1.2m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth at base 2.5m; D 0.2m) at NW represented by a band of rushes (Wth 2.2-2.5m) N-SE and at SW. The entrance (Wth 2.6m) is at E. Barrow (RO011-097002-) is 10m to the NE, and rath (RO011-096----) is c. 150m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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