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In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps, with external fosse shown on 1905 OS 6-inch map. Hachured as circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; fosse (max. D 0.6m) survives to SE, SSE, WSW and NW, enclosing circular area (59.3m SSE-NNW). Furze bushes, growing along inner and outer line of fosse, enclose interior except for numerous gaps. Remains of cultivation ridges cross N half of interior on ESE-WNW axis. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R687) as cropmark of bank, intervening fosse and outer 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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