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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ishlaun, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a D-shaped grass-covered area at the crest of a south-west-facing slope on a north-west to south-east ridge. An overgrown earthen bank forms an arc with gaps at the north and north-east, while field walls and a bank truncate the remaining perimeter. A man-made underground passage lies inside the bank at the north.
At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by an arc (C 50m) of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 3m) NW-E with gaps at N (Wth 0.8m) and NE (Wth 5m). There is no visible fosse and the perimeter is truncated by NNE-SSW field walls at E and W and by an E-W field bank at S. Man-made underground passage (RO008C028002-) is inside the bank at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 6 June 2015

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