What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lodge, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular grass-covered area on a gentle southeast-facing slope, bounded partly by an earthen bank and partly by a scarp with an outer fosse visible as a band of rushes. A possible ringfort, a rath, and another rath lie within a few hundred metres to the northwest, south-southwest, and east.

On a shelf of a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.7m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.65-0.7m) SE-WSW and a scarp (H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at N) elsewhere with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.8-2m; D 0.2m) E-WSW, which is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2.6m) elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SSE. The possible ringfort (RO011-067----) is c. 120m to the NW, rath (RO011-068----) is c. 170m to the SSW, and rath (RO011-070----) is c. 220m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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