Discover Alone, back to main map

Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonelly, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low-lying, level landscape where a north-west-south-east stream flows one hundred metres to the south-west. A subcircular reed-covered area measures thirty-one metres north-west-south-east and twenty-eight metres north-east-south-west. An earthen bank two to three-point-three metres wide and zero-point-three to one metre high surrounds the space, while a two-metre entrance opens toward the west-north-west.
On a low-lying, level landscape with a NW-SE stream or drain c. 100m to the SW. Subcircular reed-covered area (dims 31m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.3m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.6-1m) and hedge with no visible fosse. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at WNW. Rath (RO028-158----) is c. 180m to the NNW, and fulacht fia (RO028-237----) is c. 50m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places