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Meat shambles built on E-facing slope adjacent to Bandon Fair Green. Sixteen-sided stone walled enclosure (diam. c. 45m; H c.6m) with corner buttresses built 1817; eastern bays have oeil-de-boeuf opes. Arched doorway in NW wall. Two-storey residential house fills bay to SW with inscribed stone (illegible) over central arched passage into interior, now blocked. Along internal S wall of enclosure are remains of lean-to stalls, on W side are modern dwellings/buildings. In centre, an 8-sided roofless slaughter house (diam. c. 20m; H 3.8m). The shambles is now in use as flats and retail units following renovations, c. 2000. Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 17 March 2015

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO110-020

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