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Depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) surrounded by fosse on 1905 OS 6-inch map; oval area on 1936 OS 6-inch map, defined by two hachured banks with intervening fosse. According to local information, levelled c. 1977; originally consisted of earthen bank overgrown with trees and bushes, separated from low outer bank by waterlogged fosse. In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (43.5m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.2m) clearly defined by differential growth. Enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R609) as cropmark of subrectangular area enclosed by bank, intervening fosse and external bank with faint trace of linear feature extending E from external bank.
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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