
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 the SW-facing slope of a low NE-SW ridge, bounded partly by an overgrown scarp and partly by an earthen bank with a fosse. Two other raths lie nearby, one about 20m to the NE and another about 115m to the SSE.
On the SW-facing slope of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass-covered area (dim. 32m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.8-1m) SE-WSW and an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.8-1m) with a fosse (Wth of base 3.3m; D 0.55m) W-NW. The perimeter merges into the slope elsewhere. Rath (RO011-042----) is c. 20m to the NE and rath (RO011-043----) is c. 115m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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