What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Toberpatrick, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southeast-facing slope where an overgrown earthen bank surrounds a circular grass and scrub-covered area. An outer fosse circles part of the site, though a pond now occupies the northeast section where a holy well probably disappeared. Two other earthworks sit within three hundred metres, linking this enclosure to a wider landscape of ancient boundaries.

On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 43.8m N-S; 41.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-6m; int. H 0.2m at E to 1.4m at W; ext. H 0.7m at E and W to 1.4m at N), with traces of inner facing-stones NNE-ENE. There is an overgrown outer fosse (Wth of top 5.6-7.8m; Wth of base 2.9-3.5m; D 0.9m) SSW-N-ENE which has been deepened into a pond NE-ENE, probably removing the holy well (RO023-095002-). There is a modernised entrance (Wth 4m) at SW and scrub from the interior has been cleared onto the perimeter. Rath (RO023-094----) is c. 125m to the NNW, and the possible rath (RO023-096----) is c. 200m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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