What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathnallog, County Roscommon, Ireland. It holds a 35.7-metre grass platform above a deep fosse and outer bank. A stone structure and pond now damage the southern ditch, while relict field banks stretch north and east toward an old stream bed.

On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.7m E-W; 34.7m N-S; H 2-2.2m) with slight traces of a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m) at N, defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7.7m at S to 12.3m at N; Wth of base 3-5m; D 1.1-1.5m), with an outer bank (Wth 2-4m; H 0.2-0.3m) WSW-N-SE. The fosse is damaged by a stone structure (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 7m N-S) and pond at S (max. ext. dim. 56.4m E-W). There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3.4m) at NE. Relict field banks extend to the N (L 25m) and E (L 18m) until they encounter an old grass-covered stream bed (Wth 6m; D 0.3m) which approaches from the W, circumscirbes the site N-E and runs off to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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