Ecclesiastical enclosure in Kilconnor, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Arc NW->N (C 50m) of earthen bank (H 0.8m) with external fosse to N, incorporated into field boundary system c. 50m to NNE of church site (14495). Power (1932, 124) describes 'the outline of a former circular enclosing bank' around church as 'faintly traceable' in field fence to N as well as in 'the field surface itself (Regan's farm)'. Section of earth and stone field fence (H 1m) immediately E of site of church is curved (C 20m) and may incorporate part of inner enclosure or graveyard boundary.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-028

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