What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrick (athlone South By.) (detached Portion), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the bottom of a gentle north-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring forty-one point eight metres east-west and forty metres north-south. An earthen bank surrounds the interior, while a narrow entrance opens on the western side. Lazy-beds and small clearance cairns remain visible inside the boundary.

Towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.8m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.7m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.95-1.5m), with a fosse (Wth of top 6.4m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.3m) SW-W. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at W, and there are lazy-beds and small clearance cairns in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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