What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissydaly, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a west-northwest to east-southeast ridge and presents a circular grass-covered area bounded by an overgrown earthen bank and outer flat-bottomed fosse. No entrance is visible, although a drystone wall replaces part of the bank and reduces the fosse along the northeast to south edge. A local tradition also describes a man-made underground passage inside the northeast perimeter that remained open in the 1920s.

On the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.9m N-S; 36.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6.5-7m; int. H 1.3-1.8m; ext. H 3-3.5m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.4-10.2m; Wth of base 4-5m; D 0.5m at N to 1.5m at S), surrounded by outer field banks or walls NE-S-NW. There is no visible entrance, but the bank is replaced by a drystone wall and the fosse reduced (Wth of top 5m; D 0.9m) NE-S (max. ext. diam. 57.6m N-S; 55.7m E-W). There is a local tradition of a Man-made underground passage (RO013-013002-) inside the perimeter at NE which was open in the 1920s (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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