What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonfower (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope of a west-northwest to east-southeast ridge. A circular area forty-one metres across is defined by an earthen bank, with traces of an outer fosse at the southwest and northwest. The site is no longer visible at ground level in the pasture.
On a gentle S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Described as a circular area (diam. 41m) defined by an earthen bank, with traces of an outer fosse at SW and NW (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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