What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies an oval grass-covered area at the bottom of a north-facing karst ridge, bounded by a rebuilt drystone wall and a surviving original double facing at the southeast. A limestone shelf supports the inner wall from the south-southwest, while a north-northwest entrance opens onto an interior bisected by another drystone wall.

At the bottom of a N-facing karst ridge. Oval, grass-covered area (max. int. dims c. 70m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (Wth 1.5m at NE to 2.8m at W; H 0.2-0.9m), but the original double facing survives (Wth 3.2m) at SE. From S-SW the inner face of the wall (H 1.8m) is built on a limestone shelf (H 1.7m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at NNW. The interior is bisected by a NNW-SSE drystone wall, and there is a rectangular house site (RO035-064012-) (int. dims 7.6m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 0.9-2m; H 0.25-0.4m) just E of the centre. Enclosure (RO035-064002-) is c. 100m to the SSW. See the attached aerial view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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