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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Runnaboll, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in a level landscape as a circular grass-covered area measuring 28m east-west and 26m north-south. A scarp 0.7-1.6m high defines the circle, while a field bank circumvents the southeast and south. No visible bank, fosse or entrance remains.
On a slight rise in a level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1.6m), which is circumvented by a field bank SE-S. There is no visible bank, fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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