What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mullymucks, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on a gentle southeast-facing slope as a circular grass-covered platform measuring twenty-nine point two metres east-west and twenty-six point nine metres north-south. A low scarp defines the edge, while a narrow fosse cuts across the northeast and southeast sections, but no original entrance remains identifiable.
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 29.2m E-W; 26.9m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.35m), with a fosse (Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.3m) NE-SE. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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