What is recorded here

Longstown's lost enclosures survive only as faint ridges beneath pasture, yet the local road still bends around them like a creature avoiding a wound. That unchanged curve suggests the earth kept its shape after human tools erased it.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. According to Power (1918, 202) 'The O.M.records two lioses....Both have unfortunately disappeared, along with a third, which the map has left unrecorded'. Levelled; slight undulations in field indicate position; N-S roadway curves to respect site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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