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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Liscam, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low-lying gently undulating landscape as a circular grass-covered area measuring forty-one metres across. An overgrown earthen bank and outer flat-bottomed fosse define the boundary, while a three-metre-wide entrance and causeway face east. Burnt spreads, a fulacht fia and a possible mill lie seventy to two hundred metres distant.
On a low-lying gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-7.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.65-2.35m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.2-7.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3m; D 1.25m). The entrance (Wth 3.2m) and causeway are at E. The burnt spreads (RO048-181001-; RO048-181003-; RO048-181005-; RO048-181006-), fulacht fia (RO048-181002-) and possible mill (RO048-181004-) are 70-200m distant SE-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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