What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathconor, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a west-facing slope and presents a circular grass-covered area measured forty-nine point three metres east-west and forty-seven point four metres north-south. A flat-topped earthen bank surrounds this space, separated by a rounded fosse from an outer bank that survives from the southeast to the west. Modern field and road walls now cut through the fosse at the northeast and southeast, obscuring the original entrance.

At the crest of a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 49.3m E-W; 47.4m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4-5m; Wth of top 0.6-0.8m; int. H 0.25-0.35m generally to 0.7m at S; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1.25-1.7m generally) separated by a rounded fosse (at S: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 1.35m) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 3.7m; H 0.35m) which survive SE-W. The fosse is truncated by a NE-SW road wall at SE and a NW-SE field wall at NE. The original entrance cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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