
What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Frenchpark Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as a circular embanked and wooded enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and as an embanked enclosure with a possible inner mound on the 1914 edition. The site sits on level pasture where the earthwork no longer shows at ground level, while Rath lies about one hundred metres to the east-southeast.
Marked as a circular embanked and wooded enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; max. ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m), perhaps with an inner mound, on the 1914 ed. Situated on a level landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO015-010----) is c. 100m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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