What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Esker is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Esker, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rise in a low-lying landscape and measures 43.5 metres east-west. A western field wall crosses the centre, limiting visible banks and fosse to the west side. Cashel lies 220 metres north-northwest.
On a rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 3.4m; Wth of base 1.9m; D 0.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.1m) SW-NW, and by a scarp (H 0.3m) and traces of a fosse (Wth 1.5-2m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. The monument is overlain by a NNW-SSE field wall W of the centre, and the banks and fosse only survive W of this feature. Cashel (RO051-039----) is c. 220m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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