What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland. The grass-covered platform sits on a south-facing slope, measures about fifty by forty-eight metres, and incorporates its perimeter into a field bank. Rath lies roughly one hundred and ten metres to the south-southwest.
Visible as a circular area defined by an earthen bank, with a fosse SE-SW and an entrance at SE on aerial photograph (CUCAP: APH 19), and situated on a S-facing slope. This is now a grass-covered platform (diam. 50m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.8m) with the perimeter incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. Rath (RO041-057----) is c. 110m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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