What is recorded here

Embanked enclosre is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowduff Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland. The subrectangular grass platform sits at the summit of a low ridge, measuring 53.5 metres by 42.4 metres. An earthen bank, rounded fosse and outer bank survive along the southwest and west edges, while a scarp defines the rest of the perimeter. A narrow reed-filled depression once appeared in the north interior, but there is no evidence it is a man-made passage or that it remains visible.

At the summit of a low NW-SE ridge. Subrectangular grass-covered platform (dims 53.5m NE-SW; 42.4m NW-SE) with some scrub on the perimeter which has been quarried back everywhere except SW-W where it is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m) with a rounded fosse (at SW: Wth of top 8.5m; Wth of base 4m; D 1.45m) and an outer bank (Wth 2m; H 0.8m) which survives SSE-W. Elsewhere the platform is defined by a scarp (H 1-1.4m). Gannon (1972) mentions a narrow reed-filled depression NE-SW (RO035-001002-) in the N interior of the rath, but there is no reason to believe that it is a Man-made underground passage, and is not in evidence now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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