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Indicated — Glennamucklagh East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, on SW-facing slope, commanding view across Owenkeal River valley. Depicted as roughly square area (c. 20m x c. 20m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map, defined by trees and broken line. Area 15.5m E-W by 14m N-S planted with sycamore trees; field clearance material dumped around perimeter. According to local information site of 'fort'. Bowman (1934, 112) recorded levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. 18yd) on Mrs. O'Callaghan's land. 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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