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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Slieve AND Corbally, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as an oval embanked enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and sits on a gentle southeast-facing slope. The grass-covered platform measures thirty-one and a half metres across, has a shallow scarp cut back by quarrying, and holds a pond at its south edge.
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. This is an irregularly-shaped, grass-covered platform (dims 31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) which has been cut back on all sides by quarrying and with a pond at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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