What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cartron (ballintober South By., Kilbride North Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. A rectangular annexe attaches to the east, but a quarry and drystone wall cut its perimeter. A test excavation eighty metres south produced no related archaeological material.

On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen scrub-covered bank (Wth 4.7-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 1.25-1.75m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) NW-N-NE. A rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.1-6.2m; Wth of base 2.5-2.7m; D 0.5-1m) survives ENE-S-WNW, and the entrance (Wth 3m) and causeway (Wth 2.2m) are at ENE. A rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO028-209002-) (dims 26m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) is attached to the E, and is defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.4m) and rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.7m) at S, but the perimeter is cut by a quarry at E and an NW-SE drystone wall and townland boundary with Carroward at N. A test excavation (04E1504) on the site of a new house c. 80m to the S in produced no related archaeological material (Morahan 2007a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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