What is recorded here
In rough hill pasture, on a S-facing slope with views of Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. A roughly circular area (9.8m N-S; 8.6m E-W) is defined by upright slabs (T 0.2m; H 0.55m) largely obscured by a dense cover of gorse and spaced irregularly on the perimeter. The level interior is in rough pasture. There is a fulacht fia (CO103-030001-) c. 110m to the W. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO103-030002
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jeff Buck, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Adriaen van Diest, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Peter Craine, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Dickison, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
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