What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Roxborough, County Roscommon, Ireland. It is a D-shaped embanked area about 35 metres across with a straight field bank at the east, marked on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and reduced to a bank fragment about 25 metres long on the 1914 edition. It sits on a gentle south-facing slope as a length of earth and stone bank and fosse, though it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath RO040-009 is about 65 metres to the east.

Marked as a D-shaped embanked area (dims. c. 35m E-W; c. 35m N-S) with a straight field bank at E on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 25m W-NE) on the 1914 ed. Situated on a gentle S-facing slope, and described as a length of an earth and stone bank and fosse (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO040-009----) is c. 65m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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