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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cornamart, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest at the south end of a low ridge, forming an oval grass-covered area defined by an overgrown earthen bank. The bank measures thirty-two centimetres wide at its narrowest point and rises one metre internally, while twenty-one centimetres externally. No visible fosse or original entrance remains, and a rath sits approximately one hundred ninety metres to the north-northwest.
On the crest at the S end of a low NNW-SSE ridge. Oval grass-covered but poached area (dims 42m ENE-WSW; 34m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.1m) which is incorporated into a field bank S-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-064----) is c. 190m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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