
What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moneymore, County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1837 Ordnance Survey map marked a subcircular embanked enclosure about 65 metres north-south and 55 metres east-west in an undulating low-lying landscape. The earthworks are no longer visible at ground level in the pasture.
Marked as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65 N-S; c. 55m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in an undulating low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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