What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowkeel (frenchpark By., Breedoge Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a flat low-lying landscape where an east-southeast to west-northwest stream curves around the south-northwest perimeter. A circular grass-covered area measures twenty-four and a half metres east-west and twenty-three and a half metres north-south. An earthen bank with bushes borders the west-northwest and north-east, while a shallow fosse cuts through the northwest, east and south.

On a flat low-lying landscape with an ESE-WNW stream curving around the perimeter S-NW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.5m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at N: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m) W-WNW and N-E, with a fosse (Wth of base 2.4-3.4m; D 0.3-0.5m) NW-E-S. The stream occupies the site of the fosse S-NW, but there is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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