Enclosure in Cooles, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope, on W side of farmyard. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Earthen bank (int. H 1.5m) survives SE->NE. Farmyard building, built on bank at E and in N half of interior; silage pit in S half of interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO006-044

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