What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Scor More, County Roscommon, Ireland. A circular grass-covered area forty-point-five metres across sits on a low rise in a low-lying landscape. An earthen bank defines the NNW, E, and WSW edges, while a reduced scarp and a shallow fosse mark the remaining perimeter. A band of lush vegetation traces the fosse line from W to NE, and another rath lies about ninety metres to the N.
On a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m at S to 4.8m at N; int. H 0.2m at NE to 0.75m generally; ext. H 1.25m at S to 1.95m at N) NNW-E-WSW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere, and a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5m) at SW, its line represented by a band of lush vegetation W-NE. The entrance is not identified, and a pond has been dug in the fosse at W. Rath (RO016-045----) is c. 90m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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