Discover Alone, back to main map

Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Turlaghmore, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears only on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map as a circular embanked enclosure about forty metres across at the east edge of a slight plateau. The surviving D-shaped grass area measures twenty-eight metres north-south and seven metres east-west, with a thirty-centimetre scarp on its east side. A north-south field wall cuts through its west edge, hiding any remaining structure beyond that line.
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m), and situated at the E edge of a slight plateau in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 28m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) NE-SE but the monument is truncated by a N-S field wall at W and does not survive visibly W of it. The possible rath (RO051-029----) is c. 130m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places