What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissergool, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the east end of a short east-west spur and presents a circular grass-covered area about thirty-four metres across. An overgrown earthen bank defines much of the perimeter, while a road wall circumvents the north-northwest section and a field wall bisects the site. Archaeological testing east of the main structure uncovered part of a ditch, but no archaeological material appeared ten metres to the north.

At the E end of a short E-W spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 33.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.1-2.6m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) NE-S and SW-NW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere, and circumvented by a road wall NNW-NNE. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2- 2.7m; D 0.1-0.2m) E-S but no visible entrance, and the site is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall. Archaeological testing c. 30m to the E uncovered part of a ditch (Wth 0.6-0.7m; D 0.4m) (Henry 2009c), but testing c. 10m to the N produced no archaeological material (Henry 2009d). Rath (RO014-028----) is c. 90m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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