What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissacurkia (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope where an oval overgrown area measures forty-three point six metres east-west and thirty-two point eight metres north-south. A wide earthen bank and rounded fosse separate the centre from a stony outer bank that has become part of a field boundary. No entrance remains visible on the earthworks.

On a gentle S-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Oval overgrown area (dims 43.6m E-W; 32.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.1-4.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2-1.3m ) NW-E-SSE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7-1m) elsewhere, separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.8-6.6m; Wth of base 3.8-4.2m; D 0.8-1m) from an overgrown stony outer bank (Wth 3.2-4.5m; ext. H 0.5-0.9m) incorporated into a field bank. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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