What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Doonard More, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on a knoll at the west end of a low ridge and has a circular grass area, an inner earthen bank, a fosse, an outer bank with facing stones, and gaps at the east-south-east, south-south-west, west-south-west and north-east. Rath is about 200m to the north-east.

On a knoll at the W end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47.3m E-W; 43.6m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.5-6.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.9-2.4m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.7-7.5m; Wth of base 2.8-3.5m; D 0.8m at N and S to 1.7-1.9m at E and W) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 2m at S to 4-4.5m generally; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) which has external facing stones (max. ext. diam. 72m E-W; 66m N-S). The entrance (Wth 3m) through the inner bank and the causeway (Wth 4m) are at ESE, but there is no corresponding gap in the outer bank. There are other gaps through both banks at SSW, WSW and NE. Archaeological testing (02E0766) c. 70-150m to the NE failed to produce any related material (Read 2004c). Rath (RO023-113----) is c. 200m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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