What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lahagboy,killinaddan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a subcircular grass-covered area measuring 50.5m north-south and 43m east-west on a gentle east-facing slope. An overgrown earthen bank, up to 8.5m wide and 1.8m high at its best-preserved northwest section, surrounds the interior, while an outer fosse 3.3 to 4m wide and up to 0.85m deep runs along the outside. A four-metre-wide entrance opens at the east-southeast, and a field bank marks the townland boundary with Killinaddan to the south-southwest and north-northwest.

On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 50.5m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) which is best preserved at NNW (Wth 8.5m; int. H 1.8m at NNW; ext. H 1.8m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.3-0.85m), which is circumscribed by a field bank and townland boundary with Killinaddan SSW-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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