
What is recorded here
Built into ESE bank of ringfort (12251). Overgrown remains of random-rubble walls encase earthen core. Front elevation (L 7.1m; H 5m) faces SE; buttresses on either side of pointed corbelled recess (H 1.9m; Wth 2.2m; D 2m), rear collapsed. Stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.9m), with earthen ramp (L 12m) to N atop scarp on E side of fort.
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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