What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownderry, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in an undulating landscape as a circular grass-covered area thirty-seven metres across. An earthen bank with bushes and slight traces of a fosse define the perimeter, while a three-point-four-metre entrance faces east and an east-west field bank truncates the north edge.
On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank with bushes (Wth 4.4-4.8m; int. H 0.5-1.2m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m) and slight traces of a fosse (Wth 2.7-3.2m). The entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at E, and the perimeter is truncated at N by an E-W field bank.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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