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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coolnagour

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly oval raised area on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Oval area (54.5m E-W; 40.5m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; max. ext. H 0.85m) N->S; low rise elsewhere. Road boundary skirts bank N->ESE, following line of external fosse. At SE, where road bends away from enclosure, external fosse (D 0.3m) survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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