Enclosure in Scart, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Oval area (82m N-S; 104m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H c. 1m) forming field boundary fences in places; stream runs outside bank SW->N. Low traces of inner bank with intervening fosse (D c.1m) SW->N. Interior level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO097-043

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