Enclosure in Glen North — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the Glen North enclosure, yet the 1842 survey captured a sharp rectangular shadow on the south-facing slope before the land was levelled. Bowman walked Mrs. Sexton's pasture in 1934 and measured a vanished square fort nearly twenty-seven yards across, proving the ground still held the memory of walls nobody could see. The roadway cut through one side like a knife, but the missing corner never stopped the shape from existing in the minds of those who knew where to look.

Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 30m ESE-WNW; c. 25m NNE-SSW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, truncated on SSW side by roadway. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 241) as levelled square fort (side c. 27yd) on Mrs. Sexton's land. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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