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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cloonsuck, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an oval grass-covered area on an E-facing slope, defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread with intermittently visible facing-stones. An E-W field bank truncates the southern edge while quarrying has cut into the western perimeter, leaving no identifiable original entrance. Rath lies approximately 220m to the WNW.
On an E-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (int. dims 34.8m N-S; 22.8m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8-3.2m; H 0.2-0.6m) with intermittently visible facing-stones. The monument is truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S and quarried into inside the perimeter at W. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO026-003----) is c. 220m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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