Enclosure in Glashaboy West, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Depicted as hachured, roughly square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 28m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with W side slightly convex; E, S and W sides indicated on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. In ploughed field, on E-facing slope, commanding extensive view to NE and SE. No visible surface trace. According to local information, levelled c. 1980. Linear banks to E, S and W visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W2; July 1973). Two fulacht fiadh (10846,10847) in same field c. 15m to E. Most of surrounding field boundaries removed.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO041-117001

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