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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Roxborough, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight north-facing slope as a D-shaped grass-covered area measuring 32.3 metres north-south and 30.5 metres east-west. A 0.4-metre-high scarp defines the boundary, though hedges now truncate the western and southern edges. No visible fosse or original entrance remains identifiable.
On a slight N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32.3m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) that is slightly truncated by a N-S hedge at W and an E-W hedge at S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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