Enclosure in Ballyhooleen, County Cork (CO097-025----)

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What is recorded here

In pasture. Depicted as rectangular field on 1842, 1902 and 1942 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly rectangular field (30m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by earthen fence (H 1.4m). Known locally as "fort".

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO097-025

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