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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Skeanamuck, County Roscommon, Ireland. The D-shaped grass-covered area measures 32.7 metres north-south and about 20 metres east-west, with a 3.7-metre eastern entrance and a wall footing best preserved from the northeast to the east. A north-south field wall truncates the western perimeter, leaving no visible monument beyond that line.
In an undulating landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32.7m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a wall footing with some bushes which is best preserved NE-E (Wth 1.55-1.65m; max. int. H. 0.5m; max. ext. H 0.55m). The entrance (Wth 3.7m) is at E. The monument is truncated by a N-S field wall towards the perimeter at W and does not survive visibly W of this. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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