What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumamoodan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It stands on a steep north-facing slope where a one-and-a-half-metre scarp marks the northern edge of an overgrown interior. The D-shaped bank measured fifty metres northeast-southwest and thirty metres northwest-southeast when first mapped in 1837. Rath lies one hundred and seventy metres to the southwest.

On a steep N-facing slope. Marked as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 50m) SW-N on the 1914 ed. Described as an overgrown earthen bank (Gannon 1972), and visible now as a scarp (H 1.5m) at N (C c. 30m). The interior is overgrown. Rath (RO017-034001-) is c. 170m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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