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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corboghil, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as an oval embanked enclosure on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and a small D-shaped field on the 1915 edition. The grass-covered area measures 28 metres east-west and 26.9 metres north-south, bounded partly by a 5.8-metre-wide earthen bank but truncated by straight field banks at the north, east and south. No visible fosse or original entrance remains.
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a small D-shaped field on the 1915 ed. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope with a NW-SE stream or drain c. 140m to the SW. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 26.9m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) SW-NW, but the monument is truncated by straight field banks at N, E and S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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