What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a barrow, ring-barrow in Runnabackan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the SW-facing slope of a small NW-SE spur, forming a circular grass-covered platform nineteen metres across that a flat-bottomed fosse and outer grass-covered bank define. Reeds line the fosse while furze dots the bank, and no original entrance remains identifiable. A possible rath sits thirty metres to the NW.

On the SW-facing slope of a small NW-SE spur. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 17.6m NW-SE; H 0.4-0.7m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.2-10.2m; Wth of base 3.4-4.5m; D 1.5m) with some reeds, and an outer grass-covered bank (Wth 5.6-6.2m; H 0.25-0.6m) with some furze (max. ext. diam. 40.5m NW-SE). There is no identifiable original entrance. The possible rath (RO034-077----) is c. 30m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Embanked enclosure, likely dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Its significance lies in its rare preservation and the insight it provides into territorial or ritual land use in prehistoric landscapes.

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