Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lahakinneen, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In rough grazing land, on E-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by hachured bank SSE->NNW and by broken line elsewhere. Arc (C 25m) formed by earthen bank (H 1.4m) survives SW->NW, with heavily overgrown fosse on W side. Low rise along line of levelled bank to N. Interior slightly raised.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO051-007

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