What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Scregg (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge and appeared as a circular embanked feature on the 1837 and 1911 Ordnance Survey maps. Gannon measured a subrectangular area 36m NE-SW and 32m NW-SE with an eastern entrance 2.6m wide, while the site now shows as a 43m circular rise in reclaimed pasture.

Towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular hachured feature on the 1911 edition. It is described as a subrectangular area (dims 36m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse with an entrance (Wth 2.6m) at E (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular area (diam. 43m N-S) defined by a broad rise in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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