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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dangan (king), County Roscommon, Ireland. It is a circular embanked enclosure about fifty metres across on the 1837 map and a bank fragment on the 1914 map. It sits on the south-east slope of a low broad hill but is not visible at ground level in pasture.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank on the 1914 ed. Situated on the SSE-facing slope of a low broad hill, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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