What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kingsland, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low east-west ridge as a circular grass and nettle-covered area measuring thirty-nine metres east-west and thirty-seven metres north-south. Overgrown earthen banks, scarps, fosses and outer banks surround the central space, while a third bank appears along the south-west edge despite possible obstruction from drainage upcast. No visible entrance breaks the continuous earthworks.

On a low E-W ridge. Circular grass and nettle-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) NE-SE and by a scarp (H 1-1.45m) elsewhere. It is surrounded by an overgrown fosse (Wth of base 5.3-7.5m; D 0.6m at N to 1.5m at E) and outer bank (Wth 4.7-6m; H 0.8m at N to 1.4m at E), with an outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) N-ESE that can be traced as a band of rushes ESE-SW. There is a third bank (Wth 4m; H 0.4-0.5m) SSW-SW which may be obscured by upcast from drainage SW-NW but is not visible elsewhere (max. ext. diam. c. 70m N-S). There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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