What is recorded here

Enclosure in Meelaherragh is a hidden circular earthwork in County Cork, Ireland, reduced to a faint cropmark beside a field fence. It matches the size of a nearby ringfort, suggesting two neighbouring households or one divided community. The soil still marks the shape of a boundary that people walked, defended or abandoned before memory faded.

Cropmark of arc of bank and trace of external fosse (E->W) abutting S side of field fence, visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R722, May 1977); probably remains of circular enclosure, of roughly similar dimensions to ringfort (12853), c. 150m to N. 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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