What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownaglogh, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope of a northwest-southeast ridge and preserves a partial earthen bank with a shallow outer ditch. Two other raths stand within a short distance to the north-northwest and east.
On a gentle S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Described as a subcircular area (dims 32m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and a slight outer fosse (Gannon 1972). It is now an arc (C 19.5m) of an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) and a fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1m) SW-NW. Raths (RO038-022----) and (RO038-024----) are c. 130m to the NNW and c. 100m to the E respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
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