Enclosure in An Ráth Thiar, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On rough mountain side, on NE-facing slope. Oval area (17.6m E-W; 11.9m N-S) enclosed by stone wall (H 1.1m; Wth 1.36m) WSW->NW; single stones, some of which are contiguous, elsewhere. Wall consists of several boulders along base with smaller stones packed in between and on top. Interior level and grass-covered; small boulder (H 0.4m; 0.89m x 0.95m) c. 5m inside E end of enclosure. Locally known as 'Mike Jack's cahereen' and thought to have 'something to do with rounding up cattle'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO069-074

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