What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moneymore, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a subcircular grass-covered area on a slight SSE-facing slope, bounded by an overgrown earthen bank and an outer fosse. The SSE entrance leads into the enclosure, while a pond sits in the SE quadrant beside the field bank that incorporates part of the structure.

On a slight SSE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 43.8m NE-SW; 39.5m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown but poached earthen bank (Wth 4.4-4.7m; int. H 0.95-1.3m; ext. H 1.45-2.05m), which is incorporated into a field bank WSW-NW, and an outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 7.2m; Wth of base 3.8m; ext. D 0.9m) NW-NE. The entrance (Wth 2.3m) is at SSE, and there is a pond in the SE quadrant. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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