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Indicated

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Indicated stands on a low hill above Meelagh valley, its twenty-metre circle marked by a thin bank and a radially set stone at the south-east entrance. The north half has surrendered to overgrowth, while a dense patch of blackthorns just south holds the remains of an old dwelling site. Together they suggest a small lived world where people watched the valley, tended the enclosure and left behind only a gap in the bank and a stone still pointing inward.
On top of a low hill on N-facing slope; commanding view of Meelagh valley. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by bank NW->NE (H 0.4m); scarp SE->SW (H 0.65m); truncated to W by N-S field fence. Entrance to SE, defined to S by radially-set stone (L 1m; 0.8m; 0.25m). Second stone outside gap in bank to NW. N half interior overgrown. (WBBS). Myler (1998, 40) records that 'just south of this ringfort in a dense patch of blackthorns are the remains of an old dwelling site or Coulach'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 24 January 2013

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