Enclosure in Ransborough, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured D-shaped enclosure (straight side c. 30m NW-SE; projecting c. 30m to SW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; rectangular structure built up against SE side. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site or rectangular structure. All surrounding field fences removed.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-080

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