What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dooneen (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of an east-west spur and preserves a circular grass-covered platform twenty-eight metres across. A five-and-a-half-metre-wide fosse separates the platform from a slight outer bank that reaches four metres wide and forty centimetres high. No entrance remains visible on the surviving earthworks.
On the crest of an E-W spur. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 28m; H 0.4m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 5.5m) SW-SE from a slight outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) SW-NW and at NE. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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