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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Culleenatreen OR Flagford, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low rise in a flat landscape and contains a circular grass area about 27.5m across. A gapped earthen bank surrounds the circle, while a shallow external ditch appears at the southeast edge. No entrance is visible, but a drain cuts through the bank from southwest to west-northwest.
On top of a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 27.5m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.7m at S to 4m at N; int. H 0.2m at S to 0.6m at W; ext. H 0.65m at W to 1.05m at N), with an external fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.2m) at SE. There is no visible entrance, but a drain runs inside the bank SW-WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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