What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lismulkeare, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low-lying landscape surrounded by drumlins and measures twenty-nine metres north-south. An eroded earthen bank defines the circular overgrown area, while a field wall and bank overlay parts of the perimeter. Rath lies one hundred and sixty metres to the southeast.
In a low-lying landscape surrounded by drumlins. Circular overgrown area (diam. 29m N-S) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.2-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.35m; ext. H 0.5-1m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the perimeter is overlain by a NW-SE field wall at NE and the remains of a NE-SW field bank at NW. Rath (RO006-169----) is c. 160m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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