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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumnalassan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a subcircular scrub-covered area measuring 37 metres north-south and 32 metres east-west. An overgrown earthen bank, partially incorporated into a field bank, surrounds the centre while an outer round-bottomed fosse cuts through the ground to the north, east and south-west. No visible entrance breaks the continuous earthworks.
On a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims 37m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.5m at W to 1.3m at E), which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW, and an outer round-bottomed fosse (at E: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.1m) NW-E-SW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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