What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dergraw, County Roscommon, Ireland. It stands on a drumlin as a D-shaped overgrown area measuring 31 metres northwest-southeast and 26 metres northeast-southwest. An earthen bank forms the northern edge while a scarp defines the rest, surrounded by an outer fosse on the west, north and east. A separate rath attaches to the southeast but remains divided by a field bank and drain.
On top of a drumlin. D-shaped overgrown area (dims 31m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) at N and a scarp (H 0.5-0.65m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; D 0.2m generally to 0.65m at E) W-N-E. Rath (RO07-046002-) is attached to the SE, but separated from it by a NE-SW field bank and drain. It is unplanted in mixed woodland (Bing c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 May 2015
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