Enclosure in Egmont, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (35.4m E-W; 34.8m N-S) enclosed by fosse (D 0.4m; Wth c. 2m); second fosse 6.6m outside first exists to W (D 0.4m). Causeway across fosse to E (Wth 4.5m). Interior incorporates hilltop; quarried into on N side; quarrying and rock outcrops evident in E half. Large quarry immediately to NW of enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO016-042

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