Enclosure in Scronagare, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on break in NNE-facing slope. D-shaped area (straight side c. 40m E-W; projecting 26m to S) defined by low scarp ESE->SSW; earthen bank (H 1.6m) SSW->WNW; steep scarp to N. Remains of ruined limekiln in bank to WSW. Field boundary crosses interior on NNE-SSW axis.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO059-118

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