What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moyne, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a level landscape as a circular grass-covered area measured thirty-one point nine metres north-south and thirty-one point two metres east-west. An earthen bank with some bushes stands beside a complete fosse and outer bank, although the inner bank reduces to a scarp and the fosse fills back north-northeast. No visible entrance appears on the structure.
On a level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.9m N-S; 31.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.4-4.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) separated by a complete fosse (Wth of top 5-7.6m; Wth of base 3.2-4m; D 0.4m at E to 1.1m at W) from an outer bank (Wth 2.2-2.7m; ext. H 0.1m) S-NNW. The inner bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m) and the fosse back-filled N-NE. There is no visible entrance.
See the attached aerial view taken from the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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