What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumsillagh (boyle By., Tumna South Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular overgrown area twenty to twenty-two metres across on the north-facing slope of a drumlin. A scarp rises sixty centimetres to one metre above the ground, while a fosse three to four metres wide and twenty to forty centimetres deep cuts the southeast and southwest edge. No entrance remains visible, and two other raths stand one hundred sixty metres west and one hundred twenty metres south-southwest.
On the N-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 20-22m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), with a fosse (Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.2-0.4m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance. Rath RO007-074----) is c. 160m to the W and rath (RO007-076----) is c. 120m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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