Ecclesiastical enclosure in Killarush, County Cork

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In pasture, on S-facing slope. D-shaped enclosure (70m NNE-SSW; projecting c. 100m to E) defined by linear field boundary (NNE-SSW) to W and to N, curved earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE->SW, open elsewhere; external fosse (D 1m) E->SW. Break in bank to SE (Wth 3.2m). Inner face of bank survives as gentle slope from interior to top of bank. Interior level. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 210) as double-ramparted D-shaped fort on P. J. O'Callaghan's land; 'about two-thirds of the outer, and practically all the inner ramparts are levelled...intervening fosse is c. 14 feet wide'. Lime kiln shown inside bank to SE, on 1842 OS 6-inch map, described as 'disused...on south side of inner rampart' (ibid.). No visible surface trace of lime kiln. According to Bowman (ibid.) church site and burial ground (14121) in interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO031-018001

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