Enclosure in Oldcastle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No human hand built the circle, yet no visible wall breaks it. Thistles trace twenty-six metres across the slope while shadow and seed keep the line closed. The land remembers a shape it never learned, waiting for someone to stop asking whether the circle is true.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Aerial photograph (CASAP September 1991) shows circular shadow mark; defined on ground by circular bank of thistles enclosing area 26m in diameter; no evident earthwork and no local tradition of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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