Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyroe, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On SW-facing slope. Partially levelled. Circular area (diam. 25m N-S; 30m E-W); defined by low rise with external depression visible NW->NE (max. int. H 0.3m); elsewhere clumps of gorse may follow outline of site. Interior slopes sharply to S. According to Power (1940, 24) 'On Smith's farms were two lioses but both have been destroyed'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO089-027

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