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Cliffort

Cliff-edge fort

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At end of gravel spur overlooking W bank of Bandon River. Roughly oval area (30.7m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by deep fosse (D 3.7m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.6m) S->NE; by sheer cliff face NE->S. Interior split-level; W half 2.4m higher.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO111-008

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Neville Goodman, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Unknown author Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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