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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tibohine, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a west-northwest to east-southeast ridge as a subcircular grass-covered area measuring forty-two point three metres north-south and thirty-eight metres east-west. An overgrown but complete earthen bank surrounds the site, while a complete outer rounded fosse remains very slight from the northwest to the northeast. No visible entrance exists, and remnants of a north-northeast to south-southwest field wall and hedge now cross the interior.
On the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 42.3m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an overgrown and complete but gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.6m) with some inner facing stones at E, and a complete outer rounded fosse (Wth of base 2.8-4.3m; D 0.3-0.5m), which is very slight (D 0.1m) NW-NE. There is no visible entrance, and the interior is overlain by the remnants of a NNE-SSW field wall and hedge. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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