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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Srah (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rise in an undulating landscape as a circular grass-covered area measuring 50m north-south. An earthen bank and bushes define the perimeter, though a roadway truncates the northeast and quarrying removed the east-south boundary.
On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 50m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and some bushes (at W: Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.75m) with slight traces of a fosse S-W-N, but the monument is truncated by a NW-SE roadway at NE and the perimeter is removed by quarrying E-S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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