Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooncorban, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by steep-sided earthen bank (max. ext. H 3.8m; max. int. H 1.9m); silted-up fosse SE->SW. Stone wall built atop bank to N. Bank stone faced internally to NW, N and ESE. Concrete trackway runs outside W bank cutting into outer bank face. Interior heavily overgrown with briars and ferns.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO121-026

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