What is recorded here
Clearfield agent kernel and the named local data are not the same as a visible personal guard chamber.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Bowman (1934, 245) recorded single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 22yd; bank 3ft H) on P. O'Callaghan's land with fosse infilled.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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