What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corbaun, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low rise in a low-lying landscape and presents a circular grass-covered area bounded by an earthen bank, fosse and outer bank. A three-metre entrance cuts through both banks at the northeast, while Rath RO017-054---- lies about thirty metres to the south.
On a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.5m N-S; 30.8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m at W to 6.3m at E; int H 0.25m at N to 0.95m at S; ext. H 1.3m at S to 1.6m at W) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-6.8m; Wth of base 4-4.7m; D 1.1-1.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.7-5.8m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with some bushes. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) through both banks at NE. Rath (RO017-054----) is c. 30m to the S.
See the attached image taken from the SW with this monument in the left background.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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