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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tullyloyd, County Roscommon, Ireland. The site appears on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map as a circular embanked enclosure and on the 1927 map as a bank fragment. It occupies the east-facing slope of a low hill near the Owenur River, with a fulacht fia located about 90m to the south.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank SE-W-NW on the 1927 ed. Situated on the E-facing slope of a low hill with the W-E Owenur River just to the N. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m) defined by slight traces of a fosse (Wth c. 2m) W-N-E. Fulacht fia (RO022-158----) is c. 90m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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