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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooncommon More, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular overgrown area thirty metres across on the southwest-facing slope of a low drumlin. A small northwest-southeast stream flows ninety metres west, while another rath stands two hundred and ten metres further west and a third ninety metres east-northeast.
On the SW-facing slope of a low drumlin with a small NNW-SSE stream c. 90m to the W. Circular overgrown area (diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) which has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.1-1.2m) W-ENE, and a complete outer fosse (Wth of base 1.1-1.2m; D 0.3-0.6m) which has been re-cut as a deep drain (Wth of base 2-2.2m; D 1.3-1.4m) E-S-W. There is no visible entrance. Mass-rock (RO018-010002-) is just outside the fosse at SE, rath (RO018-009----) is c. 210m to the W, and rath (RO018-011----) is c. 90m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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