Enclosure in Clifford, County Cork

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

Indicated as irregular area (max. dims. 80m N-S; 60m E-W) planted with trees on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as irregular area of scrub on 1935 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, area of approximately half an acre of bushes, known as a 'fort' although 'not circular', site cleared by landowner c. 1987. Access to site denied.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO034-014

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