What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowntlieve, County Roscommon, Ireland. It stands on a gentle south-west-facing slope overlooking Lough Croan, whose north shore lies one hundred metres distant. A grass-covered earth and stone bank surrounds a circular platform, measuring thirty-five point seven metres north-south and thirty-five point four metres east-west. The bank reaches two point two metres externally on the south-west, west and north-east sides but reduces to an eighty-centimetre scarp elsewhere.

On a gentle SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Croan, the N shore of which is c. 100m distant. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.7m N-S; 35.4m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.8m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1.5-2.2m) SW-W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO044-067----) is c. 100m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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