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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilmurry, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in an undulating landscape as a circular grass-covered area thirty-three metres wide east to west and thirty-two point seven metres north to south. A scarp rising from point seven to one point one metres and a berm three to eight metres wide define the boundary, while ramp entrances at the east and west break the ring.
On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered convex area (diam. 33m E-W; 32.7m N-S; H 0.4-0.8m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at S to 1.1m at N) and berm (Wth 3-8m). There are ramp entrances at E (Wth 1.6m) and WSW (Wth1.7m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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