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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonsheever, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a subcircular grass platform measuring twenty-six and a half by twenty-one and a half metres. A flat-bottomed ditch surrounds the platform, while a modern earthen bank stands outside the ditch to the east and southwest. No original entrance remains visible on the structure.
On a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 26.5m N-S; 21.6m E-W; H 0.3-0.5m S-W to 1m N-E) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.6-7.2m; Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.6-1m), with a modern earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. 0.9m) outside it E-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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