What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisnagard, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the western crest of a low east-west ridge and presents a circular grass and scrub-covered area measuring 28.4 metres east-west and 26.5 metres north-south. An earthen bank, partly holding bushes, surrounds the interior while a shallow fosse cuts the south-southwestern edge. A two-metre entrance opens toward the southeast, and another rath lies two hundred metres to the east-northeast.
At the crest of a low E-W ridge at its W end. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 28.4m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1-1.4m), and a fosse (Wth of top 5.8m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.2m) S-SW. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at SE. Rath (RO022-025----) is c. 200m to the ENE.
See the attached aerial image taken from the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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