What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Knocknagawna, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a narrow shelf on a gentle east-facing slope, forming an oval grass-covered area thirty-one metres east-west and twenty-five metres north-south. A grass and scrub-covered stone spread defines most of the boundary, while a rebuilt field wall and hedge complete the north-west and north-east sections. Two other raths stand nearby, one about ninety metres east and the other about one hundred ninety metres west-southwest.

On a narrow shelf of a gentle E-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 31m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 1.6m at E to 3.4m at W; int. H 0.1m at E to 0.8m at S; ext. H 0.5m at E to 0.9m at W) NE-S-WNW, which is rebuilt as a field wall and hedge NW-NE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-051----) is c. 190m to the WSW, and rath (RO017-057----) is c. 90m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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