What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisroyne, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle north-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring thirty-nine metres east-west and thirty-eight metres north-south. An overgrown flat-topped earthen bank surrounds the centre, while a complete rounded fosse runs beside it and is re-cut as a field drain from south-south-east to north-west. A two-point-three-metre entrance opens at the east-south-east.

On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by an evergrown, flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of top 1.2-3m; Wth of base 4.3-6.6m; int. H 0.7-1m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) and a complete rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.3-6.6m; Wth of base 1.9-3m; D 0.2-0.4m), which is re-cut as a field drain SSE-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.3m) at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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