What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Highbog, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-west facing slope as a subcircular grass-covered area measuring forty-three point eight metres north-east to south-west and thirty-seven point seven metres north-west to south-east. An overgrown earthen bank surrounds the centre, while a separate outer bank appears from the north-west through east to south-south-west. A four-point-five-metre-wide entrance and five-point-two-metre-wide causeway align at the south-east edge.

On a gentle SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 43.8m NE-SW; 37.7m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NE: Wth 7.4m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.3m) with inner facing-stones at SW separated by a fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6.3m; Wth of base 2.1m; ext. D 1.6m), which is backfilled ENE-ESE and scarcely visible SSW-WSW, from an outer bank (at NE: Wth 4.6m; ext. H 0.3m) NW-E-SSW. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 5.2m) are at SE. There is a grass-covered wall foundation (L 8m N-S) in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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