Enclosure in Sycamore, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In tillage, on NE-facing slope. Oval area (64.5m NW-SE; 46.9m NNE-SSW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 0.8m). Bank wide and flat topped (Wth of top 2.2m); entrance to SSW (Wth 2m). Fosse U-shaped, dry, partially overgrown. Interior planted with beech trees. Known as 'Lis-na-reenawn' according to Jones (1910, 57).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO017-093

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