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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumercool, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits towards the top of a southeast-facing slope on a small northeast-southwest drumlin ridge. An oval scrub-covered area measures forty-one metres east-west and thirty metres north-south. Overgrown earthen banks and a scarp surround the centre, while a separate outer bank joins a field bank along the northwest and east edges.
Towards the top of the SE-facing slope of a small NE-SW drumlin ridge. Oval scrub-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NE and a scarp (H 0.5-1m) elsewhere, separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2-2.75m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.95m at SW to 3.8m at N; int. H 0.35m at S to 1.4m at N; ext. H 0.6-1m), which is incorporated into a field bank NW-E. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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