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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowkeel (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1840 Ordnance Survey map marked it as a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of twenty-five to thirty metres on a gentle east-facing slope. It is no longer visible at ground level in the pasture.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25-30m) only on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (GA020), and situated on a gentle E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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