Embanked enclosure in Errick Beg, County Roscommon

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

Towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 68m N-S; 64.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 0.85-1.15m) surviving WSW-N-SE with some bushes and barely traceable as a low scarp down to the interior (H 0.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance (Wth 2.25m) at NNW while an E-W field wall across the interior has been removed. Raths (RO044-040----; RO044-041----) are c. 195m to the W and 110m to the NW respectively.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO044-042

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