What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Grange (roscommon By., Aughrim East Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a low ridge and contains a circular overgrown area thirty metres across. Earthen banks, scarps and fosses form concentric rings around the centre. A rectangular annex stands eighty metres to the west, while a moated site appears nearby to the southeast.

At the crest of the SE-facing slope of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1.3m) W-NW and a scarp (H 1m generally to 1.6m at S) elsewhere separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m generally to 5.15m at W; D 0.2-0.9m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 0.3-0.4m) NW-NE and SE-S. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5-2.7m) and a third outer bank (Wth 3.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) NW-NE. The entrance cannot be identified. A rectangular overgrown enclosure or annexe (RO011-11102-) (dims 43m N-S; 23m E-W) to the W is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.25-5.7m; int. H 0.4-0.55m; ext. H 0.9-1m) at W and N and scarps (H 0.9-1m) elsewhere. It has an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.2m; D 0.3-0.5m) at W, and is bisected by a NNW-SSE field bank. Moated site (RO011-112----) is c. 80m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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