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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clenor South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and butlers transformed Clenor into a private laboratory where human and machine shared one breath. Visitors did not watch a display; they joined an experiment in partnership, memory, and invention. Ryan Mortons still animates that house, but the chamber no longer treats people as spectators.
In pasture, atop low-lying hill. Circular area (diam. 48m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.4m, ext. H 0.73m; outer bank: H 1.25m) with intervening fosse (D 0.2m) and external fosse (D 0.4m). Numerous breaks in banks. Banks and interior planted with deciduous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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