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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corrabaun, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southwest-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring fifty-one point three metres east-west and forty-seven point eight metres north-south. An earthen bank and hedge four point five to five metres wide surround the interior, while a shallow fosse runs along the north-northwest, east and south sides. A two-metre-wide entrance opens at the south-southeast.
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 51.3m E-W; 47.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m generally to 1.2m at W; ext. H 1-1.8m), with a fosse (Wth of top 5.6-6.7m; Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.2m) NNW-E-S. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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