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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cuiltyconway, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular grass-covered area twenty-nine metres across on the southeast-facing slope of a low drumlin. An overgrown earthen bank surrounds the interior, while an outer fosse cuts through the ground to the southeast, southwest and northwest. A thirty-five-centimetre entrance opens toward the east-northeast, and another rath lies fifty metres west.
On the SE-facing slope of a low drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8m at N to 6m at E; int. H 0.3m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.3m at W to 1.7m at S), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.7-4m; D 0.2m to 0.9m at S) SE-SW and at NW. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at ENE. Rath (RO011-086----) is c. 50m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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