What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownamaddy (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the NE-facing slope of a low drumlin as a circular grass-covered area thirty-seven metres across. Overgrown earthen banks and two fosses define the structure, though no identifiable entrance remains visible.
On the NE-facing slope of a low drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.5-5.8m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.1m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 2.75-3m; D 1.15-1.6m) from an outer overgrown bank (Wth 4-4.7m; ext. H 0.9m at S to 1.6m at N). There is a second fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.5m) W-N-E, but there is no identifiable entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
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