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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 Tully (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1837 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map marked a circular embanked enclosure about 35 metres across at the summit of a low ridge. A subrectangular or D-shaped vegetable garden now occupies the site, bounded by straight field banks and hedges on three sides but open at the southwest.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the summit of a low ridge. Subrectangular or D-shaped area used as a vegetable garden (dims 32m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by straight field banks and hedges at NW, NE and SE but with no perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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