What is recorded here
In pasture, on N-facing slope, c. 100m S of River Blackwater. Depicted as rectangular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Rectangular area (30.5m E-W; 14.7m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (D 1.3m) to E, S and W; scarp (H 1.6m) to N. Bank and interior heavily overgrown. According to Broker (1937, 46), called 'Lios Fada'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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