Enclosure in Oldcastletown, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Depicted as hachured square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, enclosure was square. Roughly square enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R640; May 1977) as soilmark of recently levelled bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-011

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