What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kiltrustan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope where a shallow reed-filled fosse marks a circular boundary thirty-three metres across. An east-northeast to west-southwest field wall and hedge now cut through the middle of the grass-covered remains.
On a gentle S-facing slope on a fairly level landscape. Circular grass and reed-covered area (diam. 33.2m E-W; 32.9m N-S) defined by the shallow remains of a reed-filled fosse (Wth 3.6-4.5m; D 0.1-0.2m). The monument is bisected by an ENE-WSW field wall and hedge.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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