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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corry (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the top of an east-facing drumlin slope overlooking the River Shannon. The circular grass area measures thirty-eight metres across and contains a low scarp, shallow outer ditch, field banks and a hedge, but no visible entrance.
Towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking the River Shannon, c. 180m to the NE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m at NW to 0.9m at S), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.3-0.4m) NE-SE. There is no visible entrance. A NE-SW field bank overlies the monument towards the perimeter at NW, and a hedge is on the perimeter N-SE while a WNW-ESE field bank is just to the SW of the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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