What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Farnbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the west end of a short drumlin ridge as a subcircular grass-covered area measuring forty-seven metres north-south and forty-two metres east-west. A fosse with a three-to-four-metre top width surrounds the site, while traces of a ninety-centimetre inner bank remain at the northwest before a farm shed cuts through the ditch. Several other raths sit within two hundred metres to the east and southwest.

At the W end of a short WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47m N-S; 42m E-W) with a few mature deciduous trees on the perimeter at NW defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.3-4.4m; Wth of base 2m; int. D 0.6-1m; ext. D 0.4-0.9m6). There are traces of an inner bank (H 0.9m) at NW which is cut by a farm shed built in the fosse. There is no identifiable original entrance. Gannon (1972) records slight traces of an inner bank and an outer bank which have now been removed. Rath (RO029-020----) is outside the perimeter at ESE, rath (RO029-021----) is c. 140m to the ESE, and raths (RO029-018001-; RO029-018002-) are c. 190m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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