
What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killeenadeema,liscoffy (madden),toberconor, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular earth and stone bank measured thirty-six metres east-west and thirty-five metres north-south when described in 1972, with an outer fosse to the east-southwest and a southern entrance. Field banks and townland boundaries later cut through the eastern part of the monument. The structure is no longer visible at ground level in the pasture, though a rath stood immediately to the northwest.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight shelf of a SW-facing slope. Described in 1972 as a circular area (diam. 36m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank, with an outer fosse E-SW. A NE-SW field bank and townland boundary cut the E part of the monument and a field bank and townland boundary between Killeenadeema and Toberconor ran SE from this. The original entrance was at S. It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO044-026002-) was immediately to the NW. (Gannon 1972)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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