What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Turlagh (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on a west-facing slope above a basin and north-northeast valley, marking a circular grass area thirty to thirty-four metres across. A five-to-six-metre earthen bank, partly hidden in a field hedge, still shows a shallow outer ditch and a south-east entrance.

Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope, overlooking a basin to the W and a slight S-N valley to the NNE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.6m NW-SE; 30.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.8m; int. H 0.8-1.6m; ext. H 1-1.6m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge with slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m) S-W-NE. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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