What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathpeak, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a low rise as a subcircular grass-covered platform measuring thirty-nine metres north-south and thirty-five metres east-west. A scarp and slight bank trace the edge, while a fosse and stone wall mark the western and northern perimeters. No original entrance remains identifiable.

On the crest of a low rise. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 39m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 2.4m; H 0.4m; at W: Wth 5m; H 0.8m) with slight traces of a bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.1m) with some bushes at the top of the scarp. There is a fosse (at W: Wth of top 7.8m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.6m) SSW-N and a stone wall circumscribes the perimeter SSW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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