Embanked enclosure in Enfield, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Towards the top of a SW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at NE: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) SW-W-NE, and a fosse (Wth of top 4m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.1m) SE-WSW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE (L 14m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO027-052

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