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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghboola More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Cloghboola More once held two circular forts, but the eastern site was levelled around 1984. Only a slight fence curve remains where a twenty-metre ring stood on the east-facing slope. The western fort still marks the land beside it. Whatever life moved through these rings has vanished into the pasture soil.
In pasture, on break in E-facing slope. Depicted as circular raised areadefined by double set of hachures (diam. c. 20m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OSmaps. Levelled; slight curve in field fence to N of site; no visiblesurface trace of enclosure. Possible Man-made underground passage (8990) in interior.According to landowner, levelled c. 1984. Ringfort (8161) 50m to W inadjoining field. Broker (1937, 46) describes them both as of 'average size'with 'double fence'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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