Enclosure in Boardee, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Semicircular area (diam. c. 53m) defined by band of light brown stony soil (Wth 4m) NNW->SE; slight rise NE->SE, possibly remains of levelled bank. Soil elsewhere in field dark brown in colour. No visible surface trace of bank SE->NNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO098-046

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