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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Grange (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an undulating low-lying landscape as a circular grass-covered platform measuring 28 metres from north-west to south-east. A scarp rising 0.3 to 0.7 metres defines the edge, though the west-northwest to east-southeast perimeter is now quarried. No visible fosse or original entrance remains.
On an undulating low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 28m NW-SE) with some bushes defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is quarried WNW-ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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