What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockroe (boyle By., Killummod Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It appeared as a circular embanked enclosure about forty metres wide on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and sat on a north-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. A quarry removed most of the site, leaving only a D-shaped grass-covered area twenty-nine metres east-west and nine metres north-south with a curving scarp between zero point four and one metre high. A burial ground lies about thirty-five metres to the northwest.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Described as a rath (D'Alton 1845, 89), it has been removed by a quarry apart from a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a curving scarp (H 0.4-1m) SE-SW. Burial ground (RO010-080----) is c. 35 to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.