Enclosure in Ballyda, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In tillage, on N-facing slope. Shown as roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 169) 'Two "forts" ...have been levelled within living memory'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO053-021

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